College Seniors' Theory of Their Academic Motivation

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 812-828

  Van Etten, Shawn ^a   Pressley, Michael ^b   McInerney, Dennis M ^c   Liem, Arief Darmanegara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

ethnographic interviewing coupled with the method of constant comparison; higher education; metacognition; motivation; strategies tactics

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349084539     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.100.4.812     Document Type: Article

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