Learning content, physics self-efficacy, and female students' physics course-taking

International Education Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 204-212

  Zhu, Zheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Course taking; Gender issues; Learning content; Physics learning; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 75349099959     PISSN: 14431475     EISSN: 14431475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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