Adapting Assessment Tasks to Support Three-Dimensional Learning

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 207-217

  Underwood, Sonia M ^a   Posey, Lynmarie A ^b   Herrington, Deborah G ^c   Carmel, Justin H ^a   Cooper, Melanie M ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical Education Research; Curriculum; First Year Undergraduate General; Learning Theories; Second Year Undergraduate; Student Centered Learning; Testing Assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041963478     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00645     Document Type: Article

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