Revisiting the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire: A Theoretical and Statistical Reevaluation of the Metacognitive Self-Regulation and Effort Regulation Subscales

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 312-331

  Dunn, Karee E ^a   Lo, Wen Juo ^a   Mulvenon, Sean W ^a   Sutcliffe, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

factor analysis; motivation; self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859033289     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164411413461     Document Type: Article

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