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Resources for Promoting High School Psychology as a STEM discipline

American Psychological Association, Task Force on the Future of Psychology as a STEM Discipline. (2010). Psychology as a core science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discipline: Report of the APA 2009 presidential task force on the future of psychology as a STEM discipline. Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/pubs/reports/stem-report.pdfopens in new window

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Resources on scientific skills students learn in psychology

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