Using active learning to improve the training of psychology teaching assistants

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 283-284

  Meyers, Steven A ^a   Prieto, Loreto R ^b  

^a ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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