A qualitative report of the ways high school chemistry students attempt to represent a chemical reaction at the atomic/molecular level

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 165-172

  Kern, Anne L ^a   Wood, Nathan B ^b   Roehrig, Gillian H ^c   Nyachwaya, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b NDSU School of Education   (United States)

^c STEM Education Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical reactions; Particulate nature of matter; Representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955834792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c005465h     Document Type: Article

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