Evidence for a positive relation between interest and achievement: Examining between-person and within-person variation in five domains

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2016, Pages 116-127

  Jansen, Malte ^a,b   Lüdtke, Oliver ^c,d   Schroeders, Ulrich ^e  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Institute for Educational Quality Improvement   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION   (Germany)

^d Centre for International Student Assessment   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Figural reasoning; Interest; Scholastic achievement; Student motivation; Within person analyses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971264819     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.05.004     Document Type: Article

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