Students' Assumptions and Professors' Presumptions: Creating a Learning Community for the Whole Student

College Teaching

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 47-54

  Fitch, Brian ^a   Kirby, Alec ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT   (United States)

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EID: 2442521816     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/87567550009595812     Document Type: Article

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