How educational practices affect the development of life-long learning orientations in traditionally-aged undergraduate students

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 337-356

  Mayhew, Matthew J ^a   Wolniak, Gregory C ^b   Pascarella, Ernest T ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diverse peer interactions; Motivation; Outcome; Practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 41249102334     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-007-9081-4     Document Type: Article

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