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Identifying Essential Epistemic Heuristics for Guiding Mechanistic Reasoning in Science Learning

Christina KristCollege of EducationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignCorrespondence[email protected]
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Christina V. SchwarzCollege of EducationMichigan State UniversityORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-4187-0139View further author information
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Brian J. ReiserSchool of Education and Social PolicyNorthwestern UniversityORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-2961-0385View further author information
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Pages 160-205 | Published online: 13 Nov 2018

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