Educational transformation in upper-division physics: The Science Education Initiative model, outcomes, and lessons learned
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Stephanie V. Chasteen, Bethany Wilcox, Marcos D. Caballero, Katherine K. Perkins, Steven J. Pollock, and Carl E. Wieman Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorade 80309, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy and CREATE for STEM Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA Department of Physics and Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA (Received 28 September 2014; published 23 September 2015)
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