Effectiveness of different tutorial recitation teaching methods and its implications for TA training

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Koenig, Kathleen M ^a   Endorf, Robert J ^b   Braun, Gregory A ^c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34249303119     PISSN: 15549178     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.3.010104     Document Type: Article

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