Gender differences in mathematics self-efficacy beliefs

Gender Differences in Mathematics: An Integrative Psychological Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 294-315

  Pajares, Frank ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511614446.015     Document Type: Chapter

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