Identifying Patterns and Relationships among the Responses of Seventh-Grade Students to the Science Process Skill of Designing Experiments

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-99

  Germann, Paul J ^a   Aram, Roberta ^b   Burke, Gerald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Evangel University   (United States)

^c Camas High School   (United States)

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EID: 0002744030     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2736(199601)33:1<79::AID-TEA5>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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