Looking for students' personal characteristics predicting study outcome

Higher Education

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-75

  Van Bragt, Cyrille A C ^a   Bakx, Anouke W E A ^a,b   Bergen, Theo C M ^b   Croon, Marcel A ^c  

^a FONTYS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Applied Physics and Science Education   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dropout; Former education; Personality characteristics; Study approach; Study outcome

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650213635     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-010-9325-7     Document Type: Article

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