Benefits and Problems With Student Teams: Suggestions for Improving Team Projects

Journal of Education for Business

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-19

  Hansen, Randall S ^a  

^a STETSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

business education; group projects; teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749156439     PISSN: 08832323     EISSN: 19403356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JOEB.82.1.11-19     Document Type: Article

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