Exploring business students' and liberal arts students' beliefs about physics and physics learning

Asia Pacific Education Review

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 100-106

  Mistades, Voltaire Mallari ^a  

^a DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Beliefs about Physics; Cognitive expectations; Physics education research

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749147228     PISSN: 15981037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03025836     Document Type: Article

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