Help seeking in cooperative learning groups

Help Seeking in Academic Settings: Goals, Groups, and Contexts

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 45-88

  Webb, Noreen M ^a   Ing, Marsha ^a   Kersting, Nicole ^a   Nemer, Kariane Mari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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