The effect of three cognitive variables on students' understanding of the particulate nature of matter and its changes of state

International Journal of Science Education

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 987-1016

  Tsitsipis, Georgios ^a   Stamovlasis, Dimitrios ^a   Papageorgiou, George ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Changes of state; Cognitive styles; Convergent divergent thinking; Field dependence independence; Logical thinking; Particulate structure of matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952044590     PISSN: 09500693     EISSN: 14645289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500690902893605     Document Type: Article

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