Motivation and performance within a collaborative computer-based modeling task: Relations between students' achievement goal orientation, self-efficacy, cognitive processing, and achievement

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-77

  Sins, Patrick H M ^a   van Joolingen, Wouter R ^b   Savelsbergh, Elwin R ^a   van Hout Wolters, Bernadette ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Achievement goal orientation; Cognitive processing; Collaborative computer based modeling; Self efficacy; Student motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749142142     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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