Assessing teachers' beliefs to facilitate the transition to a new chemistry curriculum: What do the teachers want?

Journal of Science Teacher Education

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 317-335

  Coenders, Fer ^a   Terlouw, Cees ^a   Dijkstra, Sanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Curriculum change and transition to a new curriculum; Teacher beliefs; Teacher preparation

Indexed keywords

EID: 48349119532     PISSN: 1046560X     EISSN: 15731847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10972-008-9096-5     Document Type: Article

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