Students' experiences of home-school dissonance: The role of school academic culture and perceptions of classroom goal structures

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 253-279

  Kumar, Revathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Elementary to middle school transition; Home school dissonance; Mastery goal structure; Performance goal structure; Sense of school belonging

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748140660     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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