Common characteristics of models in present-day scientific practice

Research in Science Education

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 469-488

  Valk, Ton ^a   Driel, Jan H ^a   Vos, Wobbe ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Modelling; Nature of science; Scientific models; Teaching models

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548149013     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-006-9036-3     Document Type: Article

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