Adolescents' help seeking in mathematics classrooms: Relations between achievement and perceived classroom environmental influences over one school year

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 133-146

  Schenke, Katerina ^a   Lam, Arena C ^a   Conley, AnneMarie M ^a   Karabenick, Stuart A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement goal theory; Classroom environment; Emotional support; Help seeking; Mathematics achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921811516     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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