A Comparative Study of Student Math Skills: Perceptions, Validation, and Recommendations

Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 379-394

  Jones, Thomas W ^a   Price, Barbara A ^b   Randall, Cindy H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Management Science Operations Research; Operations Management; Statistics; Teaching Approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053315979     PISSN: 15404595     EISSN: 15404609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4609.2011.00314.x     Document Type: Article

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