Motivation and engagement in English, mathematics and science high school subjects: Towards an understanding of multidimensional domain specificity

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 269-279

  Green, Jasmine ^a   Martin, Andrew J ^a   Marsh, Herbert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domain specificity; Engagement; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548029729     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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