Assessing 16-year-old students' understanding of Aqueous solution at submicroscopic level

Research in Science Education

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-179

  Devetak, Iztok ^a   Vogrinc, Janez ^a   Glažar, Saša Aleksij ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Chemical misconceptions; Chemistry; Drawing submicrorepresentations; ITLS model; Particle level; Solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949108816     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-007-9077-2     Document Type: Article

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