Investigating students' success in solving and attitudes towards context-rich open-ended problems in chemistry

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 294-302

  Overton, Tina L ^a   Potter, Nicholas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attitudes; cognitive style; open ended problems; problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861628007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/C1RP90036F     Document Type: Article

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