A cross-subject investigation of college students' epistemological beliefs of physics and mathematics

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 336-351

  Liu, Po Hung ^a   Liu, Shiang Yao ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

College student; Epistemological beliefs; Integrated instruction; Nature of mathematics; Nature of science; Prospective teacher

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052540978     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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