Adult students' achievement goal orientations and evaluations of the learning environment: a person-centred longitudinal analysis

Educational Research and Evaluation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 297-322

  Pulkka, Antti Tuomas ^a   Niemivirta, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

achievement goal orientation; latent class clustering analysis; learning environment; longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis; stability and change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876959502     PISSN: 13803611     EISSN: 17444187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803611.2013.767741     Document Type: Article

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