Developing measures of roughness: Problem solving as a method to document student thinking in engineering

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 820-830

  Moore, Tamara J ^a   Hjalmarson, Margret A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authentic assessment; Modeling; Nanotechnology; Problem solving; Student thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956449192     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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