Elementary Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching the Nature of Science: An examination of Teachers Who are Effective in Improving their Students' Views

This conference paper was presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research on Science Teaching in Baltimore, MD in April 2008.

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