Examining achievement goals and causal attributions together as predictors of academic functioning

Journal of Experimental Education

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 295-321

  Wolters, Christopher A ^a   Fan, Weihua ^a   Daugherty, Stacy G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b Klein ISD   (United States)

Author keywords

achievement; adolescence; attribution; goal theory; learning processes strategies; metacognition; self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878012440     PISSN: 00220973     EISSN: 19400683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220973.2012.700498     Document Type: Article

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