I think it's better if those who know the area decide about it: A pilot study concerning power in CS student project groups

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 276, Issue , 2006, Pages 132-135

  Wiggberg, Mattias ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; PILOT STUDIES; PROJECT COURSE; PROJECT WORK; RESEARCH APPROACH; STUDENT PROJECT;

CURRICULA; RESEARCH; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77953504230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1315803.1315828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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