Learning to understand the forms of causality implicit in scientifically accepted explanations

Studies in Science Education

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 74-

  Grotzer, Tina A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1080/03057260308560195     Document Type: Note

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