Teaching Economics: A Cooperative Learning Model

College Teaching

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 69-74

  Caropreso, Edward J ^a   Haggerty, Mark ^a  

^a CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 33646230348     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/87567550009595817     Document Type: Article

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