Effort on homework in grades 5-9: Development, motivational antecedents, and the association with effort on classwork

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1094-1111

  Trautwein, Ulrich ^a   Lüdtke, Oliver ^a   Kastens, Claudia ^b   Köller, Olaf ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CHILD; CONSCIENCE; CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTIVATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIENCE; CULTURE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTIVATION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33746365820     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00921.x     Document Type: Review

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