Effects of experimenting with physical and virtual manipulatives on students' conceptual understanding in heat and temperature

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1021-1035

  Zacharia, Zacharias C ^a   Olympiou, Georgios ^a   Papaevripidou, Marios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

College university; Laboratory science; Physics; Simulations

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); EXPERIMENTS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY; COMPARISON STUDIES; CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDINGS; CONTROL GROUPS; DO-MAINS; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; INTRODUCTORY COURSES; SEQUENTIAL COMBINATIONS; SIMULATIONS; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

PERMANENT MAGNETS;

EID: 55349118822     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20260     Document Type: Article

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