Towards the improvement of learning in secondary school: Students’ views, their links to theories of motivation and to issues of under- and over-achievement

Research Papers in Education

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 341-349

  Postlethwaite, Keith ^a   Haggarty, Linda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Improving teaching; Learning; Motivation; Student views; Underachievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009585393     PISSN: 02671522     EISSN: 14701146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02671520210122937     Document Type: Article

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