What's wrong with giving students feedback?

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 11649-11656

  Sims Knight, Judith E ^a,b   Upchurch, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-BASED LEARNING; META-ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8744289830     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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