Investigating student ideas about cosmology I: Distances and structure

Astronomy Education Review

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Coble, Kim ^a   Camarillo, Carmen T ^a   Trouille, Laura E ^b   Bailey, Janelle M ^c   Cochran, Geraldine L ^d   Nickerson, Melissa D ^a   Cominsky, Lynn R ^e  

^a CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84885914293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3847/AER2012038     Document Type: Article

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