Modeling the developmental trajectories of rational number concept(s)

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 14-20

  McMullen, Jake ^a   Laakkonen, Eero ^a   Hannula Sormunen, Minna ^a   Lehtinen, Erno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conceptual change; Latent profile analysis; Latent transition analysis; Rational numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891682947     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2013.12.004     Document Type: Article

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