Tête à tête: Reading groups and peer learning

Active Learning in Higher Education

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 32-45

  Finlay, Sara Jane ^a   Faulkner, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

active learning; peer learning; reading groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990339341     PISSN: 14697874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469787405049945     Document Type: Article

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