Competencies for successful self-regulated learning in higher education: structural model and indications drawn from expert interviews

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 454-470

  Dresel, Markus ^a   Schmitz, Bernhard ^b   Schober, Barbara ^c   Spiel, Christine ^c   Ziegler, Albert ^d   Engelschalk, Tobias ^a   Jöstl, Gregor ^c   Klug, Julia ^c   Roth, Anne ^b   Wimmer, Bastian ^d   Steuer, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

competencies; expert interviews; learning situations; self regulated learning; strategies; structural model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924857004     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1004236     Document Type: Article

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