Student's understanding of molecular structure representations

International Journal of Science Education

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1227-1245

  Ferk, Vesna ^a   Vrtacnik, Margareta ^a   Blejec, Andrej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STUDENT; TEACHING;

EID: 0345098605     PISSN: 09500693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0950069022000038231     Document Type: Article

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