Improving test scores through environmental education: Is it possible?

Applied Environmental Education and Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 161-169

  Bartosh, Oksana ^a   Tudor, Margaret ^b   Ferguson, Lynne ^b   Taylor, Catherine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Pacific Education Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 84896692959     PISSN: 1533015X     EISSN: 15330389     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15330150600912937     Document Type: Article

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