Research on cooperative learning and achievement: Comments on slavin

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 70-79

  Abrami, Philip C ^a   Chambers, Bette ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

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EID: 0029703975     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ceps.1996.0005     Document Type: Article

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