Disciplinary and gender differences among higher education students in self-regulated learning strategies

Educational Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 323-347

  Virtanen, Päivi ^a   Nevgi, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Disciplinary differences; Gender differences; Higher education; Self assessment; Self regulation in learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951732622     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443411003606391     Document Type: Article

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