Assessing the application of three theories of conceptual change to interdisciplinary data sets

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Montfort, Devlin ^a   Herman, Geoffrey L ^b   Streveler, Ruth ^b   Brown, Shane ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

conceptual change; Digital Logic; Mechanics of Materials

Indexed keywords

AXIALLY LOADED MEMBERS; BOOLEAN LOGIC; CONCEPTUAL CHANGE; CONTEXT SENSITIVITY; DIGITAL LOGIC; DOMAIN SPECIFICITY; MECHANICS OF MATERIALS; SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY , ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS; SOCIAL CONTEXT; STUDENT REASONING; THEORETICAL APPROACH; THEORETICAL EXPLANATION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84874686218     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2012.6462340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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