FOCUS ARTICLE: Implications of Research on Children's Learning for Standards and Assessment: A Proposed Learning Progression for Matter and the Atomic-Molecular Theory
Measurement Interdisciplinary Research and PerspectivesPublished 1 April 2006
Carol L. Smith, Marianne Wiser, Charles Anderson, Joseph Krajcik
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(2006). FOCUS ARTICLE: Implications of Research on Children's Learning for Standards and Assessment: A Proposed Learning Progression for Matter and the Atomic-Molecular Theory. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives: Vol. 4, No. 1-2, pp. 1-98.
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