Investigating the relationship between teachers' nature of science conceptions and their practice of inquiry science

Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Atar, Hakan Yavuz ^a   Gallard, Alejandro ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inquiry science; Nature of science; Teacher beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861181726     PISSN: 16094913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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