A scientific approach to the teaching of chemistry

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-59

  Reid, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information processing; Learning difficulties; Pre learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549110670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b801297k     Document Type: Conference Paper

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