Managing students' attitude towards science through problem - Solving instructional strategy

Anthropologist

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-24

  Adesoji, Francis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Attitude; Problem solving; Science; Secondary school; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 46749104484     PISSN: 09720073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09720073.2008.11891024     Document Type: Article

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