Using Analogies to Improve Elementary School Students' Inferential Reasoning About Scientific Concepts

School Science and Mathematics

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 133-142

  Yanowitz, Karen L ^a  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0347966939     PISSN: 00366803     EISSN: 19498594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-8594.2001.tb18016.x     Document Type: Article

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