How important are student-selected versus instructor-selected literature resources for students’ learning and motivation in problem-based learning?

Instructional Science

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 39-58

  Wijnia, Lisette ^a   Loyens, Sofie M M ^a   Derous, Eva ^b   Schmidt, Henk G ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autonomous motivation; Perceived competence; Problem based learning; Self directed learning; Self study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939876740     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-014-9325-6     Document Type: Article

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