Autonomous motivation and meta-cognitive strategies as predictors of academic performance: Does intrinsic motivation predict academic performance?

Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-87

  Nishimura, Takuma ^a   Kawamura, Shigeo ^b   Sakurai, Shigeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Academic motivation; Academic performance; Junior high school students; Longitudinal study; Self determination theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856203768     PISSN: 00215015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5926/jjep.59.77     Document Type: Article

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