Mental rotation performance in fourth graders: No effects of gender beliefs (yet?)

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 459-463

  Titze, Corinna ^a,b   Jansen, Petra ^b   Heil, Martin ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fourth graders; Gender beliefs; Gender differences; Mental rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956265632     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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