Learning processes of students in pre-vocational secondary education: Relations between goal orientations, information processing strategies and development of conceptual knowledge

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 426-431

  Koopman, Maaike ^a   Den Brok, Perry ^b   Beijaard, Douwe ^b   Teune, Peter ^a  

^a FONTYS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Goal orientations; Information processing strategies; Knowledge development; Vocational education

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959951107     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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