Assessment and science education: Our essential new priority?

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 683-690

  Songer, Nancy Butler ^a   Ruiz Primo, Maria Araceli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 84863833854     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.21033     Document Type: Review

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