Students' attitudes, self-efficacy and experiences in a modified process-oriented guided inquiry learning undergraduate chemistry classroom

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 340-352

  Vishnumolakala, Venkat Rao ^a   Southam, Daniel C ^a   Treagust, David F ^a   Mocerino, Mauro ^a   Qureshi, Sheila ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

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EID: 85028727761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c6rp00233a     Document Type: Article

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