Relationships between students' conceptions of constructivist learning and their regulation and processing strategies

Instructional Science

Volumn 36, Issue 5-6 EFFECTS OF CONSTR, 2008, Pages 445-462

  Loyens, Sofie M M ^a   Rikers, Remy M J P ^a   Schmidt, Henk G ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive strategy use; Conceptions; Constructivism; ILS; MSLQ; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 51749099586     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-008-9065-6     Document Type: Article

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