Design and implementation of volitional control support in mathematics courses

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 793-817

  Kim, ChanMin ^a   Bennekin, Kimberly N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA PERIMETER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action control; Effort regulation; Emotion control; Motivation and emotions; Virtual change agents; Volition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887348833     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-013-9309-2     Document Type: Article

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