Motivation and students' use of learning strategies: Evidence of unidirectional effects in mathematics classrooms

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 416-428

  Berger, Jean Louis ^a   Karabenick, Stuart A ^b  

^a Swiss Federal Institute of Vocational Education and Training   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross lagged correlation; Learning strategies; Mathematics; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751525644     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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