Development of student knowledge in competence-based pre-vocational secondary education

Learning Environments Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 205-227

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

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b FONTYS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competence based education; Concept mapping; Knowledge development; Vocational education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855522189     PISSN: 13871579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10984-011-9092-0     Document Type: Article

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