Enhancing student motivation through the pursuit of possible selves

Possible Selves: Theory, Research and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 205-222

  Hock, Michael F ^a   Deshler, Donald D ^a   Schumaker, Jean B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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