Concept Inventories: Predicting the Wrong Answer May Boost Performance

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1805-1810

  Talanquer, Vicente ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Chemical Education Research; First Year Undergraduate General; High School Introductory Chemistry; Metacognition; Misconceptions Discrepant Events

Indexed keywords

EID: 85038243880     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00427     Document Type: Article

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