The revised learning process questionnaire: A validation of a Western model of students' study approaches to the South Pacific context using confirmatory factor analysis

British Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 719-739

  Phan, Huy P ^a   Deo, Bisun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STUDENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ATTITUDE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS;

EID: 35348837733     PISSN: 00070998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000709906X158339     Document Type: Article

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