Impact on student change in scientific creativity and socioscientific reasoning skills from teacher collaboration and gains from professessional in-service

Journal of Baltic Science Education

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-137

  Laius, Anne ^a   Rannikmäe, Miia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

In service courses; Role of science teachers' professional change; Scientific creativity; Socioscientific reasoning and argumentation skills; STL teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857483372     PISSN: 16483898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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