Identifying meta-clusters of students' interest in science and their change with age

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 999-1022

  Baram Tsabari, Ayelet ^a   Yarden, Anat ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gender equity; Informal science; Interest; Students' questions

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED; DATA SOURCE; EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH; GENDER/EQUITY; INFORMAL SCIENCE; INTEREST; OBJECT OF INTERESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE; SCIENCE EDUCATION; WEB-BASED DATA COLLECTION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70350504308     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20294     Document Type: Article

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