Barriers to college students learning how rocks form

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 300-315

  Kortz, Karen M ^a   Murray, Daniel P ^b  

^a Department of Psychology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION; GEOLOGY; HIGHER EDUCATION; LEARNING; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; STUDENT;

EID: 70450198807     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1.3544282     Document Type: Article

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