A self-determination approach to understanding students' motivation in project work

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 139-145

  Liu, Woon Chia ^a   Wang, C K John ^a   Tan, Oon Seng ^a   Koh, Caroline ^a   Ee, Jessie ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Motivation; Perceived locus of causality; Project work; Project based learning; Self determination theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954633622     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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