Framework for articulating instructional practices and conceptions

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Dancy, Melissa ^a   Henderson, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34249284151     PISSN: 15549178     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.3.010103     Document Type: Article

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