The Commonalities and Dissonances Between High-School Students' and Their Science Teachers' Conceptions of Science Learning and Conceptions of Science Assessment: A Taiwanese sample study

International Journal of Science Education

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 382-405

  Lin, Tzung Jin ^a   Lee, Min Hsien ^b   Tsai, Chin Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assessment; High school; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895902028     PISSN: 09500693     EISSN: 14645289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2013.780317     Document Type: Article

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