Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 17, Issue 1, Article 7 (Jun., 2016)
Mustafa Serdar KOKSAL and Pelin ERTEKIN
An instrument development study for determining prospective science teachers’ science-specific epistemological beliefs

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