How do I get my students to work together? Getting cooperative learning started

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-69

  Towns, Marcy Hamby ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0002016623     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p67     Document Type: Article

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