Exploring the relationship of college freshmen honors students' effort and ability attribution, interest, and implicit theory of intelligence with perceived ability

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 92-101

  Siegle, Del ^a   Da Via Rubenstein, Lisa ^a   Pollard, Elizabeth ^b   Romey, Elizabeth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Windsor High School   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ability; Achievement; Effort; Implicit theory of intelligence; Interest

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749302221     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: 19349041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986209355975     Document Type: Article

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