Situational expectancies and task values: Associations with students’ effort

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 47, Issue , 2017, Pages 53-64

  Dietrich, Julia ^a   Viljaranta, Jaana ^b,d   Moeller, Julia ^c   Kracke, Bärbel ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diary study; Expectancy value theory; Pre service teacher students; Situational variability; Student motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993958695     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2016.10.009     Document Type: Article

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