A critique of how learning progressions research conceptualizes sophistication and progress

Learning in the Disciplines: ICLS 2010 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 1032-1039

  Sikorski, Tiffany Rose ^a   Hammer, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING PROGRESSIONS; SCIENCE EDUCATION; STUDENT PROGRESS; WAYS OF THINKING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84876141014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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