Ideas about the nature of science held by undergraduate atmospheric science students

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1681-1688

  Parker, Loran Carleton ^a   Krockover, Gerald H ^b   Lasher Trapp, Sonia ^b   Eichinger, David C ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; GENERAL PUBLICS; NATURE OF SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 60849120773     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2349.1     Document Type: Article

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