An Exploratory Study of the Free Riding Debacle in a Malaysian University: Students' Perspectives

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 257-262

  Njie, Baboucarr ^a,b   Asimiran, Soaib ^a   Basri, Ramli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE GAMBIA   (Gambia)

Author keywords

Free riding; Group work; Malaysia; University

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891645948     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: 22437908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40299-012-0029-x     Document Type: Article

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