Development and validation of an instrument to measure university students' biotechnology attitude

Journal of Science Education and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 255-264

  Erdogan, Mehmet ^a   Özel, Murat ^b   Uşak, Muhammet ^c   Prokop, Pavol ^d,e  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c DUMLUPINAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^e INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Attitude; Biotechnology; Instrument development; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650902023     PISSN: 10590145     EISSN: 15731839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10956-009-9146-6     Document Type: Article

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