How to investigate the goal orientations of students in competence-based pre-vocational secondary education: Choosing the right instrument

Evaluation and Research in Education

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 318-334

  Koopman, Maaike ^a,b   Teune, Peter ^b   Beijaard, Douwe ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b FONTYS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Learning; Measurement; Motivation; Vocational education

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956299834     PISSN: 09500790     EISSN: 17477514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500790802204604     Document Type: Article

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