Approaches to biology teaching and learning:Reconsidering 'What Works'

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 329-333

  Tanner, Kimberly D ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; STANDARD; TEACHING;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; TEACHING;

EID: 82755186254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.11-09-0085     Document Type: Article

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