Not Another Group Project: Why Good Teachers Should Care about Bad Group Experiences

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 244-246

  Forrest, Krista D ^a   Miller, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

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