Approaches to cell biology teaching: Cooperative learning in the scienceclassroom - Beyond students working in groups

Cell Biology Education

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-5

  Tanner, Kimberly ^a   Chatman, Liesl S ^a   Allen, Deborah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CYTOLOGY; GROUP DYNAMICS; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN RELATION; INDEPENDENCE; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; SCHOOL; SCIENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT; TEACHER; TEACHING; TEAMWORK;

BIOLOGY; CELLS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL; STUDENTS; TEACHING; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 3042777442     PISSN: 15367509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.03-03-0010     Document Type: Article

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