Exploring high school biology students' engagement with more and less epistemologically considerate texts

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1232-1257

  Kloser, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

biology education; epistemology; interest; reading; textbooks; think aloud

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY EDUCATIONS; EPISTEMOLOGY; INTEREST; READING; THINK-ALOUD;

BIOLOGY; TEXTBOOKS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84887449131     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.21109     Document Type: Article

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