A formative assessment of geologic time for high school earth science students

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 231-235

  Hermann, Ron ^a   Lewis, Bradford ^a  

^a MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; GEOLOGY; TIMESCALE;

EID: 3142677974     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-52.3.231     Document Type: Article

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