Measuring students' continuing motivation for science learning

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 497-522

  Fortus, David ^a   Vedder Weiss, Dana ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

adolescents; continuing motivation; HLM; motivation; Rasch analysis

Indexed keywords

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; SURVEYS;

ADOLESCENTS; HIERARCHICAL LINEAR MODELING; HLM; POLYTOMOUS; RASCH ANALYSIS; SCIENCE LEARNING;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 84896316886     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.21136     Document Type: Article

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