First year engineering students’ approaches to study


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approaches to learning (SAL) and the levels of understanding they achieve are

critically linked and closely related to motivation. This paper reports the

results of a study involving first year higher education engineering students

using the ASI-32 questionnaire to investigate approaches to study and end of

year achievement.

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