Student perceptions of the knowledge generated in some scientific fields

By Keith S. Taber, Berry Billingsley, Fran Riga

Issue 378 | Page 65 | Published Sep 2020

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Students recognise science as a quest for understanding, as well as the technological value of scientific findings, but show some alternative conceptions of the nature of scientific knowledge.

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