Accommodative facility test results and academic success in Polish second graders

Optometry

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 110-116

  Kedzia, Boleslaw ^a   Tondel, Grazyna ^a   Pieczyrak, Danuta ^a   Maples, Willis C ^b  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Accommodation facility; Flipper test

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POLAND; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION TEST;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; CHILD; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLAND; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISION TESTS;

EID: 5844279608     PISSN: 15291839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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