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Preparing More Confident Preservice Elementary Science Teachers: One Elementary Science Methods Teacher's Self-Study

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    Diana C. Rice

  2. Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 43210, U.S.A

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Rice, D.C., Roychoudhury, A. Preparing More Confident Preservice Elementary Science Teachers: One Elementary Science Methods Teacher's Self-Study. Journal of Science Teacher Education 14, 97–126 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023658028085

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