Sex differences in reading achievement

Trames

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-13

  Lynn, Richard ^a   Mikk, Jaan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Abilities; Effect size; Meta analysis; Reading achievement; Sex effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950753616     PISSN: 14060922     EISSN: 17367514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3176/tr.2009.1.01     Document Type: Article

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