Predictive relationships between adult students' achievement goal orientations, course evaluations, and performance

International Journal of Educational Research

Volumn 61, Issue , 2013, Pages 26-37

  Pulkka, Antti Tuomas ^a   Niemivirta, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Achievement; Course evaluations; Goal orientation; Partial least square modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884284979     PISSN: 08830355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2013.03.015     Document Type: Article

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