Peer instruction: From Harvard to the two-year college

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1066-1069

  Lasry, Nathaniel ^a,b   Mazur, Eric ^b   Watkins, Jessica ^b  

^a JOHN ABBOTT COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 54149118383     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.2978182     Document Type: Article

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