Assessing high school students' attitudes toward chemistry with a shortened semantic differential

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 283-292

  Kahveci, Ajda ^a  

^a ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 84968918487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4rp00186a     Document Type: Article

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