A hypermedia environment to explore and negotiate students' conceptions: Animation of the solution process of table salt

Journal of Science Education and Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 73-92

  Ebenezer, Jazlin V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Descriptive categories; Dissolving; Hypermedia animation; Phenomenography; Student conceptions; Submicroscopic ideas

Indexed keywords

EID: 17744363675     PISSN: 10590145     EISSN: 15731839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016672627842     Document Type: Article

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