What are students thinking when they pick their answer? A content analysis of students' explanations of gas properties

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 870-874

  Sanger, Michael J ^a   Phelps, Amy J ^a  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

PARTICLE COLLISION; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE VELOCITY;

GASES;

EID: 34248645127     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed084p870     Document Type: Article

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