Identifying predictors of physics item difficulty: A linear regression approach

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Mesic, Vanes ^a   Muratovic, Hasnija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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EID: 79961095235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.7.010110     Document Type: Article

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