Opportunities of student influence as a context for the development of engineering students' study motivation

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-94

  Jungert, Tomas ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Higher education; Intrinsic motivation; Self efficacy; Student influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749097792     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-007-9037-8     Document Type: Article

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