Handbook of Research on Science Education

Subject Index

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Access and equity, issues of, 455–457

Accountability assessment, 968–971

Achievement gaps, 174–176

ideological and methodological limitations, 175

rural students, 360–361

science outcomes, 175–176

urban science, 322–327

Acquisition metaphor, 33–35

Actualizing tendency, 87

Adaptation, Piagetian theory, 32

Advanced Placement (AP) exams, 176

Agency of the material world, in scientific literacy, 5

Alphabet soup curriculum, 916

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 176

Cooperative Committee, 305

American Association of Museums, 131

American Association of University Women (AAUW), 258

American College Test (ACT), 176

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 1975, 293

Analogies and metaphors, 379–380

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