Students' approaches to learning and their performance in the Extended Project pilot

Curriculum Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 179-200

  Daly, Anthony L ^a   de Moira, Anne Pinot ^a  

^a Research and Policy Analysis Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Approaches to learning; Extended Project Qualification; Learning strategy; Working Group on 14 19 Reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959893556     PISSN: 09585176     EISSN: 14693704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585176.2010.480839     Document Type: Article

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