Improved learning in a large-enrollment physics class

Science

Volumn 332, Issue 6031, 2011, Pages 862-864

  Deslauriers, Louis ^a   Schelew, Ellen ^a   Wieman, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; PHYSICS; POLICY MAKING; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH WORK; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STATE ROLE;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TEACHER; TEACHING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; LEARNING; PHYSICS; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; TEACHING; UNIVERSITIES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955989200     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1201783     Document Type: Article

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