First-semester students’ capacity to predict academic achievement as related to approaches to learning

Journal of Further and Higher Education

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2019, Pages 1420-1432

  Öhrstedt, Maria ^a   Lindfors, Petra ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

academic achievement; Higher education; psychology; self assessment; study approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050571482     PISSN: 0309877X     EISSN: 14699486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0309877X.2018.1490950     Document Type: Article

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