Developmental aspects of primary school children's construction of explanations of air pressure: the nature of conceptual change

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 23 Số 1 - Trang 308-316 - 1993
Russell Tytler1
1School of Mathematics, Science and Environmental Education, Deakin University, Burwood

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