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Ways to Support Beginning Science Teachers

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Plummer, D.M., Barrow, L.H. Ways to Support Beginning Science Teachers. Journal of Science Teacher Education 9, 293–301 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009479316326

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