Helping elementary preservice teachers learn to use curriculum materials for effective science teaching

Science Education

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 345-377

  Schwarz, Christina V ^a   Gunckel, Kristin L ^a   Smith, Ed L ^a   Covitt, Beth A ^a   Bae, Minjung ^a   Enfield, Mark ^b   Tsurusaki, Blakely K ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 40949145397     PISSN: 00368326     EISSN: 1098237X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sce.20243     Document Type: Article

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