Interspersal technique and behavioral momentum for reading word lists

School Psychology Review

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 428-434

  Burns, Matthew K ^a,c   Ardoin, Scott P ^b   Parker, David C ^a   Hodgson, Jennifer ^a   Klingbeil, David A ^a   Scholin, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c 341 Education Science Building ^*  (United States)

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