Is victor better than Victoria at maths?

Educational Psychology in Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 329-342

  Georgiou, Stelios N ^a   Stavrinides, Panayiotis ^a   Kalavana, Theano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

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EID: 85006245324     PISSN: 02667363     EISSN: 14695839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02667360701660951     Document Type: Article

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