Individual Differences in Strategy Use on Division Problems: Mental Versus Written Computation

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 438-452

  Hickendorff, Marian ^a   van Putten, Cornelis M ^a   Verhelst, Norman D ^b   Heiser, Willem J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Cito group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Latent variable models; Strategy accuracy; Strategy choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955017355     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018177     Document Type: Article

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