Judging students' achievement goal orientations: Are teacher ratings accurate?

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 844-849

  Dicke, Anna Lena ^a   Lüdtke, Oliver ^a,c   Trautwein, Ulrich ^a   Nagy, Gabriel ^a,d   Nagy, Nicole ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Judgment accuracy; Mastery; Performance approach; Performance avoidance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868304360     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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