From scientific practice to high school science classrooms: Transfer of scientific technologies and realizations of authentic inquiry

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-70

  Waight, Noemi ^a   Abd El Khalick, Fouad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

authentic inquiry; philosophy of technology; technology

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND MODELING; AUTHENTIC INQUIRY; CLASSROOM ENACTMENT; DATA SOURCE; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; HIGH SCHOOL; INTEGRATED ACCESS; PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY; PRE-COLLEGE; SCIENCE CLASSROOM; SCIENCE TEACHERS; SCIENCE TEACHING; SCIENTIFIC TOOL; TEACHER KNOWLEDGE; TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS; WEB-BASED TOOLS;

EQUIPMENT; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ONTOLOGY; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY;

TEACHING;

EID: 78650621464     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20393     Document Type: Article

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