Homework self-regulation: Grade, gender, and achievement-level differences

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 269-276

  Hong, Eunsook ^a   Peng, Yun ^a   Rowell, Lonnie L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Effort; Gender; Grade; Homework; Intrinsic value; Metacognitive strategy; Monitoring; Motivation; Persistence; Planning; Self checking; Self regulation; Task value; Utility value

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649146858     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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