Learning quantum chemistry via a visual-conceptual approach: Students' bidirectional textual and visual understanding

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 297-310

  Dangur, Vered ^a   Avargil, Shirly ^a   Peskin, Uri ^a   Dori, Yehudit Judy ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84904357070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4rp00025k     Document Type: Review

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