Measuring strategies for learning regulation in medical education: Scale reliability and dimensionality in a Swedish sample

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Edelbring, Samuel ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Approaches to studying; Regulation strategies; Self regulated learning; Validation

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL CONTROL; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACHIEVEMENT; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LEARNING; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SWEDEN; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84864955559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-12-76     Document Type: Article

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