Experienced teachers' pedagogical content knowledge of teaching acid-base chemistry

Research in Science Education

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 611-631

  Drechsler, Michal ^a   Van Driel, Jan ^b  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acids and bases; Models; Pedagogical content knowledge; Upper secondary school

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049122675     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-007-9066-5     Document Type: Article

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