The role of students' interests in self-regulated learning: The relationship between students' interests, learning strategies and causal attributions

European Journal of Psychology of Education

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 545-565

  Sorić, Izabela ^a   Palekčić, Marko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Causal attributions; Interests; Learning strategies; Self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 72549095350     PISSN: 02562928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178767     Document Type: Article

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