A review of literature reports of clickers applicable to college chemistry classrooms

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 187-195

  MacArthur, James R ^a   Jones, Loretta L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Classroom communication systems (CCS); Clickers; Educational technology; General chemistry; Lecture; Personal response systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749119167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b812407h     Document Type: Review

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