Perceived affordances and constraints regarding instructors’ use of Peer Instruction: Implications for promoting instructional change
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Chandra Turpen, Melissa Dancy, and Charles Henderson Department of Physics, University of Maryland–College Park, College Park, Maryland 20782, USA Department of Physics, University of Colorado–Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA Department of Physics and Mallinson Institute for Science Education, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008, USA (Received 3 December 2014; published 22 February 2016)
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