Teaching students to generate questions: A review of the intervention studies

Review of Educational Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 181-220

  Rosenshine, Barak ^a   Meister, Carla ^b   Chapman, Saul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana ^*

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EID: 0030520977     PISSN: 00346543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1170607     Document Type: Review

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