An investigation of early parental motivational strategies on mathematics achievement by ethnicity: A latent curve model approach

Educational Research and Evaluation

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 401-419

  McDonald, Stefanie R ^a   Ing, Marsha ^a   Marcoulides, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Extrinsic; Intrinsic; Latent curve; LSAY; Mathematics achievement; Parent motivation; Structural equation model; Underrepresented minority

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650071223     PISSN: 13803611     EISSN: 17444187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803611.2010.530447     Document Type: Article

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