Ethnic differences on students' approaches to learning: Self-regulatory cognitive and motivational predictors of academic achievement for Latino/a and White college students

New Science of Learning: Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 133-161

  Rueda, Robert ^a   Lim, Hyo Jin ^a   O'Neil, Harold F ^a   Griffin, Noelle ^b   Bockman, Shel ^c   Sirotnik, Barbara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5716-0_7     Document Type: Chapter

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