Achievement goals for teaching as predictors of students' perceptions of instructional practices and students' help seeking and cheating

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 453-467

  Butler, Ruth ^a   Shibaz, Limor ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cheating; Help Seeking; Instruction; Teacher motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949133372     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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