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Du X, Ebead U, Sabah S, Ma J, Naji KK. Engineering Students’ Approaches to Learning and Views on Collaboration: How do both Evolve in a PBL Environment and What are their Contributing and Constraining Factors?. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2019;15(11):em1774. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/106197

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Du, X., Ebead, U., Sabah, S., Ma, J., & Naji, K. K. (2019). Engineering Students’ Approaches to Learning and Views on Collaboration: How do both Evolve in a PBL Environment and What are their Contributing and Constraining Factors?. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 15(11), em1774. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/106197

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Du X, Ebead U, Sabah S, Ma J, Naji KK. Engineering Students’ Approaches to Learning and Views on Collaboration: How do both Evolve in a PBL Environment and What are their Contributing and Constraining Factors?. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2019;15(11), em1774. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/106197

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Du, Xiangyun, Usama Ebead, Saed Sabah, Jianping Ma, and Khalid Kamal Naji. "Engineering Students’ Approaches to Learning and Views on Collaboration: How do both Evolve in a PBL Environment and What are their Contributing and Constraining Factors?". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2019 15 no. 11 (2019): em1774. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/106197

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Du, X., Ebead, U., Sabah, S., Ma, J., and Naji, K. K. (2019). Engineering Students’ Approaches to Learning and Views on Collaboration: How do both Evolve in a PBL Environment and What are their Contributing and Constraining Factors?. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 15(11), em1774. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/106197

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Du, Xiangyun et al. "Engineering Students’ Approaches to Learning and Views on Collaboration: How do both Evolve in a PBL Environment and What are their Contributing and Constraining Factors?". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 15, no. 11, 2019, em1774. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/106197