Faculty beliefs about the purposes for teaching undergraduate physical chemistry courses

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 80-99

  Mack, Michael R ^a   Towns, Marcy H ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85016409376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5rp00148j     Document Type: Article

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