Salient Goals Direct and Energise Students' Actions in the Classroom

Applied Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 520-539

  Boekaerts, Monique ^a   Smit, Karin ^a   Busing, Frank ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84864760893     PISSN: 0269994X     EISSN: 14640597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-0597.2012.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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