What do students experience as peer leaders of learning teams?

Advances in Engineering Education

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Johnson, Erik C ^a   Robbins, Brett A ^a   Loui, Michael C ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Peer led team learning; Qualitative analysis; Reflective journals

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING FRESHMAN; PEER LEADERS; PEER LED TEAM LEARNING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFLECTIVE JOURNALS; STUDENT PARTICIPATION; TEACHING ASSISTANTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 84944705978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19411766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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