Assessing task values in five subjects during secondary school: Measurement structure and mean level differences across grade level, gender, and academic subject

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue , 2017, Pages 67-84

  Gaspard, Hanna ^a   Häfner, Isabelle ^a   Parrisius, Cora ^a   Trautwein, Ulrich ^a   Nagengast, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Gender differences; Measurement invariance; Task value

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006062763     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.09.003     Document Type: Article

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