Self-regulation of homework behavior: Homework management at the secondary school level

Journal of Educational Research

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-13

  Xu, Jianzhong ^a   Wu, Hongyun ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUZHOU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Homework; Secondary school students; Selfregulated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872852245     PISSN: 00220671     EISSN: 19400675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2012.658457     Document Type: Article

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