The development and use of an instrument to measure willingness to seek help from peers and teachers when studying college mathematics

Learning Environments Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 227-243

  Morris, Tracy L ^a   Lee, Shing Huei ^b   Barnes, Laura L B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Help seeking; Higher education; Instrument development; Mathematics education; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949159188     PISSN: 13871579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10984-008-9046-3     Document Type: Article

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