Effects of concept mapping strategy on learning performance in business and economics statistics

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-69

  Chiou, Chei Chang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Business and economics statistics; Collaborative concept mapping; Concept maps; Individual concept mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 58449124430     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562510802602582     Document Type: Article

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