Preservice Elementary Teachers' Evaluations of Elementary Students' Scientific Models: An aspect of pedagogical content knowledge for scientific modeling

International Journal of Science Education

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1931-1959

  Nelson, Michele M ^a   Davis, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling; Pre service; Primary school

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864657765     PISSN: 09500693     EISSN: 14645289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2011.594103     Document Type: Article

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