Changing the learning environment to promote deep learning approaches in first-year accounting students

Accounting Education

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 489-505

  Hall, Matthew ^a   Ramsay, Alan ^b   Raven, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Approaches to learning; Deep; Study process questionnaire; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847395715     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0963928042000306837     Document Type: Article

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