Investigating student communities with network analysis of interactions in a physics learning center

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Brewe, Eric ^a   Kramer, Laird ^a   Sawtelle, Vashti ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84856860384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.8.010101     Document Type: Article

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