Modeling and measuring epistemic cognition: A qualitative re-investigation

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-28

  Greene, Jeffrey A ^a   Yu, Seung B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistemic cognition; History; Qualitative; Science; Social studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888125045     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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