Trends in US government-funded multisite K-12 science program evaluation

Second International Handbook of Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 723-734

  Lawrenz, Frances ^a   Desjardins, Christopher David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9041-7_48     Document Type: Chapter

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