Teachers' perceptions of policy influences on science instruction with culturally and linguistically diverse elementary students

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 725-746

  Shaver, Annis ^a   Cuevas, Peggy ^b   Lee, Okhee ^b   Avalos, Mary ^b  

^a CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Equity; General science; Policy

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL POLICIES; EQUITY; GENERAL SCIENCE; SCIENCE INSTRUCTION;

FORMAL LANGUAGES; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LINGUISTICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 34249012066     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20151     Document Type: Article

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