The dynamics of students' behaviors and reasoning during collaborative physics tutorial sessions

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 951, Issue , 2007, Pages 69-72

  Conlin, Luke D ^a   Gupta, Ayush ^a   Scherr, Rachel E ^a   Hammer, David ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Epistemology; Explanation; Frames; Framing; Inquiry; Mechanistic reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449118177     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2820949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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5. All student names in this paper are pseudonyms.
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