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Table 4 Correlation between approaches to learning scales (coefficient correlations)

From: Measuring students’ approaches to learning in different clinical rotations

Scales

SA

SM

SS

AM

DA

DM

DS

AS

Surface approach/SA

1.00

       

Surface motive/SM

0.765**

1.00

      

Surface strategy/SS

0.719**

0.390**

1.00

     

Achieving motive/AM

0.756**

0.363**

0.261**

1.00

    

Deep approach/DA

0.343**

0.129

0.181**

0.430**

1.00

   

Deep motive/DM

0.279**

0.069

0.136*

0.390**

0.845**

1.00

  

Deep strategy/DS

0.243**

0.056

0.134

0.330**

0.887**

0.644**

1.00

 

Achiev. strategy/AS

0.363**

0.203**

0.196**

0.396*

0.872**

0.567**

0.680**

1.00

  1. **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed).
  2. *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two-tailed).