The Effect of Active Learning Methods on Student Retention in Engineering Statistics

American Statistician

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 136-140

  Kvam, Paul H ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative learning; Loglinear model; Statistical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034386126     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2000.10474526     Document Type: Article

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