Critical Thinking Skills Among Elementary School Students: Comparing Identified Gifted and General Education Student Performance

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 127-136

  Kettler, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; critical thinking; differentiation; learning; programming service delivery models; thinking skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896262834     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: 19349041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986214522508     Document Type: Article

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