Profiles of ability, effort, and difficulty: Relationships with worldviews, motivation and adjustment

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 739-754

  Malmberg, Lars Erik ^a   Little, Todd D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ability; Adaptation; Agency; Difficulty; Effort; Motivation; Person approach; Worldview

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448976861     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2007.09.014     Document Type: Article

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