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The Effect of Collaborative Concept Mapping on Elementary Preservice Teachers' Anxiety, Efficacy, and Achievement in Physical Science

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    Charlene M. Czerniak

  2. College of Education, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 43403, USA

    Jodi J. Haney

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Czerniak, C.M., Haney, J.J. The Effect of Collaborative Concept Mapping on Elementary Preservice Teachers' Anxiety, Efficacy, and Achievement in Physical Science. Journal of Science Teacher Education 9, 303–320 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009431400397

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