How attitudes and beliefs about physics change from high school to faculty

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Bates, Simon P ^a   Galloway, Ross K ^a   Loptson, Claire ^a   Slaughter, Katherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 82655165890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.7.020114     Document Type: Article

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