Individual and group learning of the Highway Code: Comparing board game and traditional methods

Educational Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-53

  Gray, A R ^a   Topping, K J ^a   Carcary, W B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Game; Learner drivers; Road safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039982329     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0013188980400104     Document Type: Article

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