Curricular reform and inquiry teaching in biology: Where are our efforts most fruitfully invested

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 226-240

  Timmerman, Briana E ^a   Strickland, Denise C ^a   Carstensen, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 49449104664     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icn064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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