Self-to-prototype matching as a strategy for making academic choices. Why high school students do not like math and science

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-67

  Hannover, Bettina ^a   Kessels, Ursula ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic choices; Prototypes; Self and identity; Self to prototype matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342332120     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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