Interplay Between Personal Goals and Classroom Goal Structures in Predicting Student Outcomes: A Multilevel Analysis of Person-Context Interactions

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-29

  Lau, Shun ^a   Nie, Youyan ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

achievement goal theory; classroom goal structure; elementary school; person context interaction; personal goal orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749084367     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.100.1.15     Document Type: Article

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