Using students' representations constructed during problem solving to infer conceptual understanding

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 837-843

  Domin, Daniel ^a   Bodner, George ^b  

^a DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical Education Research; Graduate Education Research; NMR Spectroscopy; Problem Solving Decision Making; Qualitative Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862226640     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed1006037     Document Type: Article

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