The development and validation of the Goal Orientation and Learning Strategies Survey (GOALS-S)

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 290-310

  Dowson, Martin ^a,c   Mcinerney, Dennis M ^b  

^a Inst of Chrstn Tertiary Education   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Inst of Chrstn Tert Educ Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive strategies; Confirmatory factor analysis; Goal orientations; Metacognitive strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842536232     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164403251335     Document Type: Article

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