A review of educational dialogue strategies to improve academic writing skills

Active Learning in Higher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2023, Pages 95-108

  Schillings, Marlies ^a   Roebertsen, Herma ^a   Savelberg, Hans ^a   Dolmans, Diana ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Feed back; feed forward; feed up; higher education; student learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85058416856     PISSN: 14697874     EISSN: 17412625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469787418810663     Document Type: Article

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