Peer-mediated programs to strengthen classroom instruction: Cooperative learning, reciprocal teaching, classwide peer tutoring and peer-assisted learning strategies

The SAGE Handbook of Special Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 450-459

  Dion, Eric ^a   Fuchs, Douglas ^b   Fuchs, Lynn S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 48549088649     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781848607989.n35     Document Type: Chapter

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