School effects on the development of motivation toward learning tasks and the development of academic self-concept in secondary education: A multivariate latent growth curve approach

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 235-253

  Van De Gaer, Eva ^a   De Fraine, Bieke ^a   Pustjens, Heidi ^a   Van Damme, Jan ^a   De Munter, Agnes ^a   Onghena, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Academic self concept; Motivation toward learning tasks; Multivariate multilevel latent growth curve model; Secondary education

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749133483     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243450902883920     Document Type: Article

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