Gifted students' perceptions of engineers? A study of students in a summer outreach program

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Oware, Euridice ^a,b   Capobianco, Brenda ^a,c   Diefes Dux, Heidi ^a,c,d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c Department of Curriculum and Instruction ^*

^d Teaching Academy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; DATA REDUCTION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

CHALLENGING SCIENCE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; HUMANITIES CLASSES;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 85029128556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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