The undergraduate geoscience fieldwork experience: Influencing factors and implications for learning

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 461, Issue , 2009, Pages 291-311

  Stokes, Alison ^a   Boyle, Alan P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GEOLOGY;

AFFECTIVE RESPONSE; COMPLEX PROCESSES; GEOLOGIC MAPPING; INTERPERSONAL SKILLS; LEARNING PROCESS; POSITIVE AFFECTS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

STUDENTS;

COGNITION; EARTH SCIENCE; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; FIELDWORK; HIGHER EDUCATION; LEARNING; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77951436579     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2461(23)     Document Type: Article

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