Students' Participation in an Interdisciplinary, Socioscientific Issues Based Undergraduate Human Biology Major and Their Understanding of Scientific Inquiry

Research in Science Education

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1051-1078

  Eastwood, Jennifer L ^a   Sadler, Troy D ^b   Sherwood, Robert D ^c   Schlegel, Whitney M ^d  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY WILLIAM BEAUMONT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

College science teaching; Interdisciplinary Science; Science epistemology; Scientific Inquiry; Socioscientific Issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878115203     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-012-9298-x     Document Type: Article

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