Development of students' personal professional theories in senior secondary vocational education

Evaluation and Research in Education

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 81-103

  Schaap, H ^a   van der Schaaf, M F ^a   de Bruijn, E ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Content triangulation; Longitudinal analysis; Personal professional theories; Repeated measures; School based learning; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956320526     PISSN: 09500790     EISSN: 17477514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500790.2010.550280     Document Type: Article

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