Problems Associated With Evaluating Student Performance In Groups

College Teaching

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 57-61

  King, Paul E ^a   Behnke, Ralph R ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

grading; teams; work groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870353447     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/CTCH.53.2.57-61     Document Type: Article

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