High School Biology Curricula Development: Implementation, Teaching, and Evaluation from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century

Handbook of Research on Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 561-598

  Lazarowitz, Reuven ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203824696-23     Document Type: Chapter

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