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Creating a Critical Thinking Learning Environment: Teaching Statistics to Social Science Undergraduates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Allan B. McBride
Allan B. McBride*
Affiliation:
University of Southern Mississippi
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 1996 , pp. 517 - 521
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1996

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The research reported here was made possible by NSF Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Program Grant # USE-9251254 and by matching funds from Grambling State University.

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