Elementary to high school students' growth over an academic year in understanding concepts of matter

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1853-1856

  Liu, Xiufeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); CURRICULA; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; STUDENTS;

MATTER; RASCH MODELING;

CHEMISTRY;

EID: 35748934774     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed084p1853     Document Type: Article

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