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  1. Science and Mathematics Education Centre, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, 6001, Perth, WA

    David F. Treagust (Associate Professor), Susan M. Stocklmayer, Allan Harrison, Grady Venville & Rodney Thiele (doctoral student)

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Specializations: teachers' pedagogical knowledge, analogical reasoning, conceptual change.

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Treagust, D.F., Stocklmayer, S.M., Harrison, A. et al. Observations from the classroom: When analogies go wrongi. Research in Science Education 24, 380–381 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02356372

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