Mentoring undergraduate researchers: An exploratory study of students' and professors' perceptions

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 269-291

  Behar Horenstein, Linda S ^a   Roberts, Kellie W ^a   Dix, Alice C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mentoring; Qualitative methods; Undergraduate research

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957801633     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611267.2010.492945     Document Type: Article

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