Interrelations among university students' approaches to learning, regulation of learning, and cognitive and attributional strategies: A person oriented approach

Higher Education

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 513-529

  Heikkilä, Annamari ^a   Niemivirta, Markku ^a   Nieminen, Juha ^a   Lonka, Kirsti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Approaches to learning; Cognitive and attributional strategies; Latent class clustering; Regulation of learning; Study success

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952814874     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-010-9346-2     Document Type: Article

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