Boosting financial literacy: Benefits from learning study

Instructional Science

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 659-677

  Pang, Ming Fai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Financial literacy; Learning study; Phenomenography; Student learning; Variation theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958510034     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-009-9094-9     Document Type: Article

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