Motivation, interest, and positive affect in traditional and nontraditional undergraduate students

Adult Education Quarterly

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 141-158

  Bye, Dorothea ^a   Pushkar, Dolores ^a   Conway, Michael ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interest; Intrinsic motivation; Nontraditional students; Positive affect

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846032666     PISSN: 07417136     EISSN: 15523047     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741713606294235     Document Type: Article

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