Reasoning about science-related uncertain issues and epistemological perspectives among children

Instructional Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 325-354

  Yang, Fang Ying ^a   Tsai, Chin Chung ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Epistemological development; Informal reasoning; Personal epistemology; Scientific reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953961435     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-008-9084-3     Document Type: Article

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