The effects of college students' personal values on changes in learning approaches

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-87

  Lietz, Petra ^a   Matthews, Bobbie ^b  

^a Australian Council for Educational Research   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Approaches to learning; Change over time; Formal teaching authority; Longitudinal research design; Multilevel modeling; Personal values

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449196177     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-009-9147-6     Document Type: Article

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