Modelling the links between students' interest in a domain, the tasks they experience and their interest in a course: Isn't interest what university is all about?

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue , 2016, Pages 157-165

  Fryer, Luke K ^a   Ainley, Mary ^b   Thompson, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c KYUSHU SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Efficacy; Interest; Lagged modelling; Self concept; University

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982111991     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.08.011     Document Type: Article

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