Teaching college chemistry to the edges rather than to the average: Implications for less experienced science students

ACS Symposium Series

Volumn 1193, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-28

  Canelas, Dorian A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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TEACHING;

ADVANCED PLACEMENTS; DUKE UNIVERSITY; HIGHER LEARNING; LEARNING COMMUNITY; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT; STUDENT SUCCESS; SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84957638760     PISSN: 00976156     EISSN: 19475918     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1021/bk-2015-1193.ch002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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