Approaches to studying among Greek university students: The impact of gender, age, academic discipline and handedness

Educational Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 301-311

  Andreou, Eleni ^a,b   Vlachos, Filippos ^a   Andreou, Georgia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b Argonafton and Filellinon   (Greece)

Author keywords

Academic discipline; Approaches to studying; Gender; Handedness; Higher education; Mature students

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750295458     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: 14695847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131880600992363     Document Type: Article

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