Recognizing the importance of instruction style to students' performance: Some observations from laboratory research–a research note

Accounting Education

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 313-331

  Hartnett, Neil ^a   Römcke, Jennifer ^a   Yap, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Approachability; Instruction style; Motivation; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749597790     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0963928032000095446     Document Type: Article

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