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Kjærnsli, M., Angell, C., Lie, S. (2002). Exploring Population 2 Students’ Ideas About Science. In: Robitaille, D.F., Beaton, A.E. (eds) Secondary Analysis of the TIMSS Data. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47642-8_9

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