Students' academic self-perception

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 716-727

  Chevalier, Arnaud ^a,b,c   Gibbons, Steve ^b,c   Thorpe, Andy ^d   Snell, Martin ^d   Hoskins, Sherria ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic self perception; Higher education participation; Self assessment; Test performance

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HIGHER EDUCATION; PERCEPTION; SELF ASSESSMENT; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

EID: 70350203975     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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