The return of behaviourist epistemology: A review of learning outcomes studies

Educational Research Review

Volumn 22, Issue , 2017, Pages 114-128

  Murtonen, Mari ^a   Gruber, Hans ^a,b   Lehtinen, Erno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behaviourism; Behaviourist epistemology; Bloom's taxonomy; Higher education; Learning outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029495620     PISSN: 1747938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2017.08.001     Document Type: Article

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