Differences in African-American and European-American students' engagement with nanotechnology experiences: Perceptual position or assessment artifact?

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 787-799

  Jones, M Gail ^a   Tretter, Thomas ^b   Paechter, Manuela ^c   Kubasko, Dennis ^d   Bokinsky, Alexandra ^e   Andre, Thomas ^f   Negishi, Atsuko ^e  

^a Box 7801 ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FORMAL LANGUAGES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STUDENTS;

FORMAL WRITING; INSTRUCTION; NEWSPAPER STORIES; STUDENT SELF ASSESSMENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 34547799015     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20168     Document Type: Article

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