Some aspects of students' understanding of a representational model of the particulate nature of matter in chemistry in three different countries

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 226-239

  Onwu, Gilbert O M ^a   Randall, Elize ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chemical education; Conceptual change; Macroscopic changes; Microscopic processes; Particulate model; Representational model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750421783     PISSN: 11094028     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/B6RP90012G     Document Type: Article

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