Effects of representation on students solving physics problems: A fine-grained characterization

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Kohl, Patrick B ^a   Finkelstein, Noah D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 34547926237     PISSN: 15549178     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.2.010106     Document Type: Article

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