Using cluster analysis to characterize meaningful learning in a first-year university chemistry laboratory course

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 879-892

  Galloway, Kelli R ^a   Bretz, Stacey Lowery ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84948989685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5rp00077g     Document Type: Article

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