Future time orientation and learning conceptions: effects on metacognitive strategies, self-efficacy beliefs, study effort and academic achievement

Educational Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 192-212

  Gutiérrez Braojos, Calixto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

academic achievement; conceptions of learning; future time orientation; metacognitive strategies; self efficacy beliefs; study effort

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929282446     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2013.858101     Document Type: Article

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