Increasing representational fluency with visualization tools

ICLS 2006 - International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 730-736

  Stieff, Mike ^a   McCombs, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY STUDENTS; CONNECTED CHEMISTRY; DECLARATIVE KNOWLEDGE; HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOMS; STUDENTS LEARNING; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

STUDENTS; TOOLS; VISUALIZATION;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78651284435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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