Students’ perceptions of mathematics classroom goal structures: implications for perceived task values and study behavior

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 543-563

  Skaalvik, Einar M ^a,d   Federici, Roger A ^b,d   Wigfield, Allan ^c   Tangen, Truls N ^d  

^a NTNU SOCIAL RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b Research and Education   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Classroom goal structure; Effort; Help seeking behavior; Subjective task values

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021115008     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: 15731928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-017-9382-1     Document Type: Article

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