Approaches to biology teaching and learning: Understanding the wrong answers-teaching toward conceptual change

Cell Biology Education

Volumn 4, Issue SUMMER, 2005, Pages 112-117

  Tanner, Kimberly ^a   Allen, Deborah ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STUDENT; TEACHING; THEORY;

BIOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; CURRICULUM; HUMANS; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PREJUDICE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCIENCE; TEACHING;

EID: 23744516287     PISSN: 15367509     EISSN: 15367509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.05-02-0068     Document Type: Review

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