What's so good about problem-based learning?

Cognition and Instruction

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-79

  Capon, Noel ^a   Kuhn, Deanna ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

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EID: 2442454527     PISSN: 07370008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s1532690Xci2201_3     Document Type: Article

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