Developing decision-making skills for socio-scientific issues

Journal of Biological Education

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 170-177

  Lee, Yeung Chung ^a  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Decision making; Scientific literacy; Smoking; Socio scientific issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348912773     PISSN: 00219266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00219266.2007.9656093     Document Type: Article

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