Preservice elementary school teachers' conceptual change about projectile motion: Refutation text, demonstration, affective factors, and relevance

Science Education

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-27

  Hynd, Cynthia ^a   Alvermann, Donna ^a   Qian, Gaoyin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 0031541234     PISSN: 00368326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-237X(199701)81:1<1::AID-SCE1>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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