Developing Explanations and Developing Understanding: Students Explain the Phases of the Moon Using Visual Representations

Cognition and Instruction

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 359-403

  Parnafes, Orit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84867519728     PISSN: 07370008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07370008.2012.716885     Document Type: Article

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