Link maps and map meetings: Scaffolding student learning

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lindstrøm, Christine ^a   Sharma, Manjula D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 68049147697     PISSN: 15549178     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.5.010102     Document Type: Article

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