What is the Teacher Doing? What are the Students Doing? An Application of the Draw-a-Science-Teacher-Test

Journal of Science Teacher Education

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 767-781

  Minogue, James ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental models; Science teacher education; Teacher beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958473356     PISSN: 1046560X     EISSN: 15731847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10972-009-9170-7     Document Type: Article

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