Rethinking teachers' goal orientations: Conceptual and methodological enhancements

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 574-586

  Nitsche, Sebastian ^a   Dickhäuser, Oliver ^a   Fasching, Michaela S ^b   Dresel, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Achievement goal orientation; Teacher; Teacher motivation; Teacher trainees

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955591483     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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