Informal Science Education: A Practicum for Graduate Students

Innovative Higher Education

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 291-304

  Crone, Wendy C ^a   Dunwoody, Sharon L ^b   Rediske, Raelyn K ^b   Ackerman, Steven A ^b   Petersen, Greta M Zenner ^b   Yaros, Ronald A ^c  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Graduate student training; Informal science education

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255138582     PISSN: 07425627     EISSN: 15731758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10755-011-9176-x     Document Type: Article

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