Students' understandings of human organs and organ systems

Research in Science Education

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 383-399

  Reiss, Michael J ^a   Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Biology education; Drawings; Understandings and sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010004533     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013116228261     Document Type: Article

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