PUPIL PROBLEMS IN LEARNING SECONDARY SCHOOL BIOLOGY.
The article presents the findings of a study of the expressed learning problems of two-hundred-sixty pupils enrolled in the college preparatory biology course of a large suburban senior high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ninety-two percent of the boys had elected ninth grade general science,...
| Published in: | Science Education Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 353 - 359 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct1966
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