"Maestro, what is 'quality'?": Language, literacy, and discourse in project-based science

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 469-498

  Moje, Elizabeth B ^a   Collazo, Tehani ^a   Carrillo, Rosario ^a   Marx, Ronald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0035309870     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.1014     Document Type: Article

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