Design Approaches to Support Preservice Teachers in Scientific Modeling

Journal of Science Teacher Education

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-21

  Kenyon, Lisa ^a   Davis, Elizabeth A ^b   Hug, Barbara ^c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Preservice elementary and middle school teachers; Science methods course development; Scientific modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651307285     PISSN: 1046560X     EISSN: 15731847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10972-010-9225-9     Document Type: Article

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