Development of Attitudes towards Socioscientific Issues Scale for undergraduate students

Evaluation and Research in Education

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-67

  Topcu, Mustafa Sami ^a  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Attitudes towards socioscientific issues; Development of scale; Undergraduate students; Validation of scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959643805     PISSN: 09500790     EISSN: 17477514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500791003628187     Document Type: Article

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