Confidence: The best non-cognitive predictor of academic achievement?

Educational Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-28

  Stankov, Lazar ^a   Morony, Suzanne ^a   Lee, Yim Ping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

confidence; mathematics anxiety; self beliefs; self constructs; self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892422867     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2013.814194     Document Type: Article

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