But does it last? Sustaining a research-based curriculum in upper-division electricity & magnetism

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1413, Issue , 2012, Pages 139-142

  Chasteen, Stephanie V ^a   Pepper, Rachel E ^a   Pollock, Steven J ^a   Perkins, Katherine K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; course reform; electricity and magnetism; physics education research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857477203     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3680014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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