Learner-centered practices: Providing the context for positive learner development, motivation, and achievement

Handbook of Research on Schools, Schooling and Human Development

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 60-74

  Mccombs, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

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