Collaboration, intragroup conflict, and social skills in project-based learning

Instructional Science

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 561-590

  Lee, Dabae ^a   Huh, Yeol ^a   Reigeluth, Charles M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Individual differences; Intragroup conflict; Social interdependence theory; Social skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938960220     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-015-9348-7     Document Type: Article

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