Effects of emphasizing hypothetico-predictive reasoning within the science learning cycle on high school student's process skills and conceptual understandings in biology

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1127-1147

  Lavoie, Derrick R ^a  

^a BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0013374143     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2736(199912)36:10<1127::AID-TEA5>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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