Encouraging Higher-Order Thinking in General Chemistry by Scaffolding Student Learning Using Marzano's Taxonomy

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 64-69

  Toledo, Santiago ^a   Dubas, Justin M ^b  

^a ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

First Year Undergraduate General; General Public

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954357845     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00184     Document Type: Article

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