Curriculum as Experienced by Students: How Teacher Identity Shapes Science Notebook Use

Research in Science Education

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2567-2592

  Madden, Lauren ^a   Wiebe, Eric N ^b  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elementary science; Science notebooks; Teacher identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889082082     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-013-9376-8     Document Type: Article

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