Exploring the links between students' engagement in cooperative learning, their goal preferences and appraisals of instructional conditions in the classroom

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 673-687

  Hijzen, Daphne ^a   Boekaerts, Monique ^a   Vedder, Paul ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cooperative learning; Engagement; Goal preferences; Instructional conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448997419     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2007.09.020     Document Type: Article

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