Middle School Students' Quality of Argument Regarding Nuclear Power Plants and Epistemological Beliefs

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C. B. Uygun and Ö. Yılmaz Tüzün, “Middle School Students’ Quality of Argument Regarding Nuclear Power Plants and Epistemological Beliefs,” presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Yerevan, Ermenistan, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/conference/27/contribution/53660/.