Approach and avoidance motivation as predictors of achievement behavior in physics instructions among mildly and highly gifted eighth-grade students

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 343-359

  Ziegler, Albert ^a   Heller, Kurt A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 0034338494     PISSN: 01623532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016235320002300402     Document Type: Article

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