Differential relations of constructivist and didactic instruction to students' cognition, motivation, and achievement

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 411-423

  Nie, Youyan ^a   Lau, Shun ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cognitive strategy use; Constructivist instruction; Didactic instruction; English achievement; Self efficacy; Task value

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952885172     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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