The effectiveness of incorporating conceptual writing assignments into physics instruction

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 883, Issue , 2007, Pages 61-64

  Cummings, Karen ^a   Murphy, Michael ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

College; Conceptual learning; High school; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958009755     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2508691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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