Dispositional factors predicting Chinese students' critical thinking performance

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-58

  Ku, Kelly Y L ^a   Ho, Irene T ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese student; Critical thinking; Individual difference; Thinking disposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349786481     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.08.015     Document Type: Article

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