Changes in students' problem-solving strategies in a course that includes context-rich, multifaceted problems

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Ogilvie, C A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 73649108934     PISSN: 15549178     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.5.020102     Document Type: Article

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