THE IMPORTANCE, CAUTIONS AND FUTURE OF LEARNING PROGRESSION RESEARCH: Some Comments on Richard Shavelson’s and Amy Kurpius’s “Reflections on Learning Progressions”

Learning Progressions in Science: Current Challenges and Future Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 27-36

  Krajcik, Joseph S ^a,b,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CREATE for STEM Institute   (United States)

^c AAAS   (United States)

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