The role of students' personality characteristics, self-perceived competence and learning conceptions in the acquisition and development of social communicative competence: A longitudinal study

Higher Education

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-104

  Bakx, A W E A ^a   Van Der Sanden, J M M ^a,b,c   Sijtsma, K ^c   Croon, M A ^c   Vermetten, Y J M ^d  

^a FONTYS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competence development; Learning conceptions; Model on learning; Personality characteristics; Social communicative competence

Indexed keywords

EID: 31444447156     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-004-6377-6     Document Type: Article

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