Turkish university students' attitudes toward biologygy: The effects of gender and enrolment in biology cla classes

Journal of Baltic Science Education

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 88-96

  Usak, Muhammet ^a   Prokop, Pavol ^b,c   Ozden, Mustafa ^d   Ozel, Murat ^e   Bilen, Kadir ^f   Erdogan, Mehmet ^g  

^a DUMLUPINAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^d Adiyman University   (Turkey)

^e GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Achievement; Attitudes; Biology education; Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649808625     PISSN: 16483898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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