An active learning strategy for the classroom-"who wants to win...some mini chips ahoy?"

Journal of Accounting Education

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 297-306

  Cook, Ellen D ^a   Hazelwood, Anita C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Effective teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036402242     PISSN: 07485751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0748-5751(02)00012-X     Document Type: Article

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