Redox models in chemistry textbooks for the upper secondary school: Friend or foe?

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 182-192

  Österlund, Lise Lotte ^a   Berg, Anders ^a   Ekborg, Margareta ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chemistry; Learning difficulties; Model; Oxidation; Redox; Reduction; Textbook analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955831326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c005467b     Document Type: Article

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