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Educational Psychology
An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology
Volume 22, 2002 - Issue 5
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Problem Solving in Geometry: Comparing the effects of non-goal specific instruction and conventional worked examples

Pages 591-612 | Published online: 01 Jul 2010

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