Development and Initial Psychometric Assessment of the Plant Attitude Questionnaire

Journal of Science Education and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 415-421

  Fančovičová, Jana ^a   Prokop, Pavol ^a,b  

^a TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b Institute of Zoology   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Gardening; Plants; Psychometric assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956669606     PISSN: 10590145     EISSN: 15731839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10956-010-9207-x     Document Type: Article

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