Development of knowledge frameworks and higher order cognitive operations among secondary school students who studied a unit on ecology

Journal of Biological Education

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 81-88

  Bischoff, Paul J ^a   Anderson, O Roger ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Ecology learning; Flow map; Schemata

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035581959     PISSN: 00219266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00219266.2000.9655747     Document Type: Article

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