Research on cooperative learning and achievement: What we know, what we need to know

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-69

  Slavin, Robert E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0029715015     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ceps.1996.0004     Document Type: Article

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