How do you know activities make a difference?: Practice-based research and evaluation

Activities, Adaptation and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 65-78

  Keller, M Jean ^a   Hodges, Jan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Evidence based practice; Practice based research; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952425836     PISSN: 01924788     EISSN: 15444368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J016v27n03_05     Document Type: Article

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