Teaching Referents and the Warrants Used to Test the Viability of Students' Mental Models: Is There a Link?

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 223-238

  Ritchie, Stephen M ^a   Tobin, Kenneth ^b   Hook, Karl S ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0009404511     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2736(199703)34:3<223::AID-TEA2>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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