Enhancing diversity in science: Is teaching science process skills the answer?

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 218-226

  Dirks, Clarissa ^a   Cunningham, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKILL; TEACHING;

ATTITUDE; BIOLOGY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; SCIENCE; STUDENTS; TEACHING; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 33750052585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.05-10-0121     Document Type: Article

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