The colorado learning attitudes about science survey (class) for use in biology

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 268-278

  Semsar, Katharine ^a   Knight, Jennifer K ^a,b   Birol, Gülnur ^c   Smith, Michelle K ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCIENCE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE; BIOLOGY; COLORADO; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; LEARNING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCIENCE;

EID: 80052718500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.10-10-0133     Document Type: Article

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