Inhibiting natural knowledge in fourth graders: towards a comprehensive test instrument

ZDM - Mathematics Education

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 849-857

  Van Hoof, Jo ^a   Janssen, Rianne ^a   Verschaffel, Lieven ^a   Van Dooren, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conceptual change; Item response theory; Natural number bias; Rational numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940032894     PISSN: 18639690     EISSN: 18639704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11858-014-0650-7     Document Type: Article

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