Students' complex problem-solving abilities: Their structure and relations to reasoning ability and educational success

Intelligence

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 289-305

  Sonnleitner, Philipp ^a   Keller, Ulrich ^a   Martin, Romain ^a   Brunner, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complex problem solving; Educational success; Genetics Lab; Microworlds; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878933511     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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