Assessing elementary school support for inquiry

Learning Environments Research

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-172

  Van Deur, Penny ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Inquiry; School context; Self directed learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953915409     PISSN: 13871579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10984-010-9070-y     Document Type: Article

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