Students' perceptions of a problem-based learning environment

Learning Environments Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-66

  Dochy, Filip ^a   Segers, Mien ^b   Bossche, Piet Van Den ^c   Struyven, Katrien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Learning environment; Problem based learning; Students' perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244380064     PISSN: 13871579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10984-005-7948-x     Document Type: Article

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