Differences in visual attention between those who correctly and incorrectly answer physics problems

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Madsen, Adrian M ^a   Larson, Adam M ^a   Loschky, Lester C ^a   Rebello, N Sanjay ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84861825578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.8.010122     Document Type: Article

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