Using blogging to promote clinical reasoning and metacognition in undergraduate physiotherapy fieldwork programs

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 355-368

  Tan, Shuyan Melissa ^a   Ladyshewsky, Richard K ^a   Gardner, Peter ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 77956719124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14495554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14742/ajet.1080     Document Type: Article

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