The effect of experimental manipulation of student motivation on the situational representation of text

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 755-772

  Schaffner, Ellen ^a   Schiefele, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extrinsic motivation; Intrinsic motivation; Test anxiety; Text learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448991878     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2007.09.015     Document Type: Article

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