Students' motivational and emotional experiences and their relationship to persistence during academic challenge in mathematics and reading

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue , 2013, Pages 35-46

  Tulis, Maria ^a   Fulmer, Sara M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenge; Emotions; Mathematics; Reading; Situational interest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880788477     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.06.003     Document Type: Article

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