Identification of threshold concepts for biochemistry

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 516-528

  Loertscher, Jennifer ^a   Green, David ^b   Lewis, Jennifer E ^c   Lin, Sara ^a   Minderhout, Vicky ^a  

^a Department of Chemistry ^*  (United States)

^b SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMEDICINE; COOPERATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; PILOT STUDY; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS; STUDENT;

BIOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KNOWLEDGE; PILOT PROJECTS; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS;

EID: 84907304373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.14-04-0066     Document Type: Article

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