Use of research-based instructional strategies in introductory physics: Where do faculty leave the innovation-decision process?

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Henderson, Charles ^a   Dancy, Melissa ^b   Niewiadomska Bugaj, Magdalena ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 84864754843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.8.020104     Document Type: Article

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