Who learns from errors on a class test? Antecedents and profiles of adaptive reactions to errors in a failure situation

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue , 2017, Pages 61-68

  Grassinger, Robert ^a   Dresel, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Achievement goals; Causal attributions; Reactions to errors; Self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84999157255     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.11.009     Document Type: Article

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