Looking at learning approaches from the angle of student profiles

Educational Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 493-513

  Kyndt, Eva ^a   Dochy, Filip ^a   Struyven, Katrien ^b   Cascallar, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

approaches to learning; motivation; perceived workload; self determination theory; working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863316261     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2012.667770     Document Type: Article

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