Preferences for various learning environments: Teachers' and parents' perceptions

Learning Environments Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-110

  Roelofs, Erik ^a   Visser, Jacqueline ^a   Terwel, Jan ^a  

^a Cito group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptions of learning; Conceptions of teaching; Educational measurement; Learning environments; Parental perceptions; Questionnaires; Teacher perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 3542992109     PISSN: 13871579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022915910198     Document Type: Article

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