Relative expertise in an everyday reasoning task: Epistemic understanding, problem representation, and reasoning competence

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 423-434

  Weinstock, Michael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Argument skills; Epistemological understanding; Expertise; Informal reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350029412     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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