Designing educative curriculum materials: A theoretically and empirically driven process

Harvard Educational Review

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 24-52

  Davis, Elizabeth A ^a   Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan ^a   Arias, Anna Maria ^a   Bismack, Amber Schultz ^b   Marulis, Loren M ^a   Iwashyna, Stefanie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84897075203     PISSN: 00178055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17763/haer.84.1.g48488u230616264     Document Type: Article

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