Effective Professional Development and Change in Practice: Barriers Science Teachers Encounter and Implications for Reform

School Science and Mathematics

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 150-161

  Johnson, Carla C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

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EID: 53349124925     PISSN: 00366803     EISSN: 19498594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-8594.2006.tb18172.x     Document Type: Article

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