Variation among schools on classroom practices in science based on TIMSS-1999 in Turkey

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1417-1435

  Aypay, Ahmet ^a   Erdogan, Mehmet ^b   Sözer, Mehmet A ^a  

^a ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Attitudes and achievement; General science; Middle school science; Quantitative

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; STUDENTS;

ATTITUDES AND ACHIEVEMENT; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSES; GENERAL SCIENCE; MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE;

TEACHING;

EID: 37649012418     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20202     Document Type: Article

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