Personal and contextual determinants of ethnically diverse female high school students' patterns of academic help seeking and help avoidance in English and mathematics

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 152-164

  Zusho, Akane ^a   Barnett, Peggy A ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Help seeking; Motivation; Person by context; Self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953270641     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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