Assessing students' development in learning approaches according to initial learning profiles: A person-oriented perspective

Studies in Educational Evaluation

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-40

  Vanthournout, Gert ^a   Coertjens, Liesje ^a   Gijbels, David ^a   Donche, Vincent ^a   Van Petegem, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Approaches to learning; Higher education; Learning patterns; Learning profiles; Personoriented

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873081311     PISSN: 0191491X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stueduc.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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