Motivation and learning - The role of interest in construction of representation of text and longterm retention: Inter- and intraindividual analyses

European Journal of Psychology of Education

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 155-170

  Naceur, Abdelmajid ^a   Schiefele, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activaton; Interest; Long Term retention; Mental representation; Text comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 21144431550     PISSN: 02562928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03173505     Document Type: Review

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