The impact of curriculum change on health sciences first year students' approaches to learning

Instructional Science

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 707-722

  Walker, Rebecca ^a   Spronken Smith, Rachel ^a   Bond, Carol ^a   McDonald, Fiona ^a   Reynolds, John ^a   McMartin, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

ASSIST; Curriculum change; Evaluation; Health science first year; Learning inventory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958475360     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-009-9092-y     Document Type: Article

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