Achievement goals, academic self-concept, and school grades in mathematics: Longitudinal reciprocal relations in above average ability secondary school students

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 301-313

  Niepel, Christoph ^a   Brunner, Martin ^b,c   Preckel, Franzis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Berlin Brandenburg Institute for School Quality Improvement   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic self concept; Achievement goals; Longitudinal data; Mathematics achievement; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905680665     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2014.07.002     Document Type: Article

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