Implementing a multidisciplinary program for developing learning, communication, and team-working skills in second-year undergraduate chemistry students

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 338-344

  Mc Goldrick, Niamh B ^a   Marzec, Bartosz ^a   Scully, P Noelle ^a   Draper, Sylvia M ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Collaborative Cooperative Learning; Communication Writing; Curriculum; Inquiry Based Discovery Learning; Interdisciplinary Multidisciplinary; Problem Solving Decision Making; Second Year Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874980660     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed200643g     Document Type: Article

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