A note on the reliability and validity of a 30-item version of Entwistle & Tait's Revised Approaches to Studying Inventory

British Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 529-539

  Duff, Angus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031325938     PISSN: 00070998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1997.tb01263.x     Document Type: Article

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