What do students say about their motivational goals?: Towards a more complex and dynamic perspective on student motivation

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-113

  Dowson, Martin ^a   McInerney, Dennis M ^b  

^a Institute Christian Tertiary Educ   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affect; Behavior; Cognition; Motivation; Motivational goals; Quantative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037276610     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-476X(02)00010-3     Document Type: Article

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