How to reason with economic concepts: cognitive process of Japanese undergraduate students solving test items

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 412-436

  Asano, Tadayoshi ^a   Yamaoka, Michio ^b  

^a Yamamura Gakuen College   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

economic reasoning; path analysis; TUCE 4

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924858251     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1004240     Document Type: Article

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