Peer Cohorts and the Unintended Consequences of Freshman Learning Communities

College Teaching

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 65-71

  Jaffee, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

freshman learning community; homophily; peer cohort

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951446218     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/CTCH.55.2.65-71     Document Type: Article

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