Making Sense of Genetics: Students' Knowledge Use during Problem Solving in a High School Genetics Class

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 345-368

  Finkel, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0001529273     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2736(199604)33:4<345::AID-TEA1>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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