Nonlinear change and the black box problem in educational research

Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-22

  Koopmans, Matthijs ^a  

^a MERCY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black box problem; Nonlinear change; Randomized control trial designs; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893501668     PISSN: 10900578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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