Fostering adolescents' value beliefs for mathematics with a relevance intervention in the classroom

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1226-1240

  Gaspard, Hanna ^a   Dicke, Anna Lena ^a   Flunger, Barbara ^a   Brisson, Brigitte Maria ^a   Häfner, Isabelle ^a   Nagengast, Benjamin ^a   Trautwein, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Expectancy value theory; Gender; Intervention; Mathematics; Motivation; Task value

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PSYCHOLOGY, ADOLESCENT;

EID: 84939566662     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/dev0000028     Document Type: Article

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