Assessments of Textbook Usage and the Relationship to Student Course Performance

College Teaching

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-24

  Landrum, R Eric ^a   Gurung, Regan A R ^b   Spann, Nathan ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY   (United States)

Author keywords

course performance; measures of textbook preferences; pedagogical aids; reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883647531     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/87567555.2011.609573     Document Type: Article

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