Incentives: The effects on the reading motivation of fourth-grade students

Reading Research and Instruction

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 17-37

  Edmunds, Kathryn M ^a   Tancock, Susan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE   (United States)

^b BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 65249101125     PISSN: 08860246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19388070309558384     Document Type: Article

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