Measuring Student Understanding of Geological Time

Science Education

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 708-731

  Dodick, Jeff ^a,b   Orion, Nir ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0041876359     PISSN: 00368326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sce.1057     Document Type: Article

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