A conceptual process model for improving youth science comprehension

Journal of Extension

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Skelton, Peter ^a   Seevers, Brenda ^a   Dormody, Tom ^a   Hodnett, Frank ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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