Background characteristics as predictors of academic self-confidence and academic self-efficacy among graduate science and engineering students

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 163-198

  Santiago, Anna M ^a   Einarson, Marne K ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032044385     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018716731516     Document Type: Article

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