Do the benefits of chess instruction transfer to academic and cognitive skills? A meta-analysis

Educational Research Review

Volumn 18, Issue , 2016, Pages 46-57

  Sala, Giovanni ^a   Gobet, Fernand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chess; Education; Learning; Meta analysis; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960118659     PISSN: 1747938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2016.02.002     Document Type: Review

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