What do students learn from a classroom experiment: Not much, unless they write a report on it

Journal of Economic Education

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-57

  Cartwright, Edward ^a   Stepanova, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assessment; classroom experiments; experiment report

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856832845     PISSN: 00220485     EISSN: 21524068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220485.2012.636710     Document Type: Article

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