Exploration of factors that affect the comparative effectiveness of physical and virtual manipulatives in an undergraduate laboratory
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Jacquelyn J. Chini, Adrian Madsen, Elizabeth Gire, N. Sanjay Rebello, and Sadhana Puntambekar Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, Florida, 32816-2385, USA Department of Physics, 116 Cardwell Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2601, USA Department of Physics, 216 Manning Hall, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, 31852, USA Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1025 West Johnson Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706-1796, USA (Received 4 November 2011; published 4 April 2012)
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