Assessing students' attitudes in a college physics course in Mexico

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1289, Issue , 2010, Pages 129-132

  De La Garza, Jorge ^a   Alarcon, Hugo ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Attitude; Beliefs; CLASS; modeling instruction; Physics Education

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951969185     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3515178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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