Performance-approach goals: Good for what, for whom, under what circumstances, and at what cost?

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-86

  Midgley, Carol ^b   Kaplan, Avi ^a   Middleton, Michael ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0035584991     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.93.1.77     Document Type: Article

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