"Of Course I'm Communicating; I Lecture Every Day": Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Introductory Statistics

Communication Education

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 92-102

  Wulff, Shaun S ^a   Wulff, Donald H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b Ctr for Instructional Devmt Res

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom interaction; Higher education teaching methods; Lecture; Statistics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142277448     PISSN: 03634523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0363452032000135797     Document Type: Review

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