A Look into Students’ Retention of Acquired Nature of Science Understandings

International Journal of Science Education

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1639-1667

  Khishfe, Rola ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Nature of science; Retention; Scientific literacy; Socioscientific issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930929142     PISSN: 09500693     EISSN: 14645289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2015.1049241     Document Type: Article

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