Laboratory materials: Affordances or constraints?

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1010-1025

  Jordan, Rebecca C ^a   Ruibal Villasenor, Maria ^a   Hmelo Silver, Cindy E ^a   Etkina, Eugenia ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

affordances; biology; inquiry practices; science laboratory

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE; DATA SUPPORT; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INQUIRY PRACTICES; LABORATORY EQUIPMENTS; LABORATORY EXERCISE; LABORATORY MATERIALS; SCIENCE LABORATORIES;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGY; INVESTMENTS; STUDENTS;

LABORATORIES;

EID: 80054089280     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20418     Document Type: Article

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