Improving Representational Competence in Chemistry with Model-Based Feedback

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2162-2167

  Padalkar, Shamin ^a   Hegarty, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

chemistry education; concrete models; visualization

Indexed keywords

CONCRETES; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

CHEMISTRY EDUCATION; CONCRETE MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS; MODEL-BASED OPC; MOLECULAR DIAGRAMS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL COGNITION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85139192427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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