Modeling instruction: Positive attitudinal shifts in introductory physics measured with CLASS

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Brewe, Eric ^a   Kramer, Laird ^a   O'Brien, George ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67650496127     PISSN: 15549178     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.5.013102     Document Type: Article

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