First-year engineering students' difficulties in visualization and drawing tasks

International Journal of Phytoremediation

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 315-323

  Garmendia, Mikel ^a   Guisasola, Jenaro ^a   Sierra, Egoitz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deficiencies; Problem solving; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 56749176394     PISSN: 15226514     EISSN: 15497879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03043790701276874     Document Type: Article

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