Investigating classroom community in higher education

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-67

  Summers, Jessica J ^a   Svinicki, Marilla D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom community; Cooperative learning; Higher education; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249899150     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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