Teachers' goal orientations for teaching: Associations with instructional practices, interest in teaching, and burnout

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-46

  Retelsdorf, Jan ^a   Butler, Ruth ^b   Streblow, Lilian ^c   Schiefele, Ulrich ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Achievement goal orientations for teaching; Burnout; Instructional practices; Interest in teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449633575     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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