Inquiry Learning in the Singaporean Context: Factors affecting student interest in school science

International Journal of Science Education

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2596-2618

  Jocz, Jennifer Ann ^a   Zhai, Junqing ^b   Tan, Aik Ling ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Class Activities; Inquiry; Interest; Primary Science; Student centred Curriculum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905826547     PISSN: 09500693     EISSN: 14645289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2014.908327     Document Type: Article

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