Women Engineering Students: Competence Perceptions and Achievement Goals in the Freshman Engineering Course

Sex Roles

Volumn 69, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 644-657

  Jagacinski, Carolyn M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement goals; Perceived ability; Self Efficacy; Women in Engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888053985     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-013-0325-9     Document Type: Article

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