Turkish Pre Service Science Teachers Understanding of Science and Their Confidence in Teaching it

2004-01-01
Öztekin, Ceren
Özkan, Özlem
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Journal of Education for Teaching
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C. Öztekin and Ö. Özkan, “Turkish Pre Service Science Teachers Understanding of Science and Their Confidence in Teaching it,” Journal of Education for Teaching, pp. 57–66, 2004, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/83253.
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