Teacher-Student Support, Effortful Engagement, and Achievement: A 3-Year Longitudinal Study

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Hughes, Jan N ^a   Luo, Wen ^a   Kwok, Oi Man ^a   Loyd, Linda K ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

academic engagement; elementary grades; math; reading; student teacher relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849136352     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.100.1.1     Document Type: Article

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