Predicting global and topic-specific certainty beliefs: Domain-specificity and the role of the academic environment

British Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 907-934

  Trautwein, Ulrich ^a   Lüdtke, Oliver ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENT;

ACHIEVEMENT; CULTURE; HUMANS; LEARNING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENTS;

EID: 36749075807     PISSN: 00070998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000709906X169012     Document Type: Article

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