The surprising impact of seat location on student performance

Physics Teacher

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 30-33

  Perkins, Katherine K ^a   Wieman, Carl E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

01.40D; 01.40Gb; 01.40R

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006375470     PISSN: 0031921X     EISSN: 19434928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.1845987     Document Type: Article

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