Prevalence, function, and structure of photographs in high school biology textbooks

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1089-1114

  Pozzer, Lilian Leivas ^a   Roth, Wolff Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TEXTBOOKS;

HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY TEXTBOOKS; PHOTOGRAPHS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 0347622560     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.10122     Document Type: Article

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