Students' mental models of the environment

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 327-348

  Shepardson, Daniel P ^a,b   Wee, Bryan ^a   Priddy, Michelle ^a   Harbor, Jon ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTS TASK; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MENTAL MODELS; TEACHER CLASSROOMS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 33847395022     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20161     Document Type: Article

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