What is the purpose of this experiment? Or can students learn something from doing experiments?

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 655-675

  Hart, Christina ^a   Mulhall, Pamela ^b   Berry, Amanda ^b   Loughran, John ^b   Gunstone, Richard ^b  

^a Presentation College   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0041723531     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-2736(200009)37:7<655::AID-TEA3>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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