Investigating teacher learning supports in high school biology curricular programs to inform the design of educative curriculum materials

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 977-998

  Beyer, Carrie J ^a   Delgado, Cesar ^a   Davis, Elizabeth A ^a   Krajcik, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biology; Secondary; Teacher cognition; Teacher education practicing teachers; Textbooks

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF RELEVANCE; DESIGN HEURISTICS; EVALUATION CRITERIA; HIGH SCHOOL; IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE; PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE; SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY; SECONDARY; SUBJECT MATTERS; TEACHER COGNITION; TEACHER EDUCATION-PRACTICING TEACHERS; TEACHER LEARNING;

BIOLOGY; CURRICULA; MATERIALS; STUDENTS; TEXTBOOKS;

TEACHING;

EID: 70350521036     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20293     Document Type: Article

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