Preliminary investigation of instructor effects on gender gap in introductory physics

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kreutzer, Kimberley ^a,b   Boudreaux, Andrew ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84861805407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.8.010120     Document Type: Article

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