The use of scientific literacy taxonomy for assessing the development of chemical literacy among high-school students

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 203-225

  Shwartz, Yael ^a,b   Ben Zvi, Ruth ^a   Hofstein, Avi ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical literacy; High school chemistry; Scientific literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750407693     PISSN: 11094028     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/B6RP90011A     Document Type: Article

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