Disentangling the role of the supervisor in transfer of training

Educational Research Review

Volumn 12, Issue , 2014, Pages 77-93

  Govaerts, Natalie ^a   Dochy, Filip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Supervisor support; Systematic review; Training transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904343533     PISSN: 1747938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2014.05.002     Document Type: Review

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