Development of the bonding representations inventory to identify student misconceptions about covalent and ionic bonding representations

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 312-320

  Luxford, Cynthia J ^a   Bretz, Stacey Lowery ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical Education Research; Covalent Bonding; First Year Undergraduate General; High School Introductory Chemistry; Ionic Bonding; Misconceptions Discrepant Events; Testing Assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897761272     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed400700q     Document Type: Article

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