Group work in healthcare students' education: What do we think we are doing?

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 687-699

  Brown, Cary A ^a   Mcilroy, Kelly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b McIlroy Occupational Therapy Consulting   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic assessment; Collaborative learning; Group assessment; Group learning activities; Healthcare education; Healthcare students

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958210824     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2010.483275     Document Type: Article

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