Experiments with living animals - Effects on learning success, experimental competency and emotions

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 3823-3830

  Hummel, Eberhard ^a   Randler, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological education; cognitive achievement; experimentation competency; living animals

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957698223     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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