Students' categorizations of organic compounds

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 114-121

  Domin, Daniel S ^a   Al Masum, Mohammad ^a   Mensah, John ^a  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemistry education research; Concept representation; Organic chemistry; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749130230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b806226a     Document Type: Article

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