Learning environment profiles of Turkish secondary biology classrooms

Learning Environments Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-204

  den Brok, Perry ^a   Telli, Sibel ^b   Cakiroglu, Jale ^c   Taconis, Ruurd ^a   Tekkaya, Ceren ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Koblenz   (Germany)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Learning environment profiles; Professional development; Science education; Student perceptions; Turkey; What Is Happening In this Class? (WIHIC) questionnaire

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449255385     PISSN: 13871579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10984-010-9076-5     Document Type: Article

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