Physics: Learning and scientific reasoning

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5914, 2009, Pages 586-587

  Bao, Lei ^a   Cai, Tianfan ^b   Koenig, Kathy ^c   Fang, Kai ^d   Han, Jing ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Liu, Qing ^a   Ding, Lin ^a   Cui, Lili ^e   Luo, Ying ^f   Wang, Yufeng ^b   Li, Eming ^g   Wu, Nianle ^g  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEARNING; PHYSICS; STUDENT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; CRITICAL THINKING; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 59149097877     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167740     Document Type: Short Survey

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