Student motivations as predictors of high-level cognitions in project-based classrooms

Active Learning in Higher Education

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 231-247

  Stolk, Jonathan ^a   Harari, Janie ^a  

^a FRANKLIN W OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; critical thinking; motivation; project based learning; self efficacy; self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908891025     PISSN: 14697874     EISSN: 17412625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469787414554873     Document Type: Article

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