Italian and French teachers faced with pupil's Academic Failure: The "Norm of Effort"

European Journal of Psychology of Education

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-166

  Matteucci, Maria Cristina ^a,c   Gosling, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Academic evaluation; Achievement failure; Causal attribution; Teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044276850     PISSN: 02562928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03173229     Document Type: Article

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