Does gender matter for collaborative learning?

Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering: Learning for the Future Now, TALE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 433-440

  Cen, Ling ^a   Ruta, Dymitr ^a   Powell, Leigh ^a   Ng, Jason ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

big education; Collaborative learning; learning performance; student genders

Indexed keywords

STUDENTS;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; GROUP MEMBERS; INTERACTIVE LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE RETENTION; LEARNING OUTCOME; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 84928253147     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TALE.2014.7062581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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