Will i succeed in engineering? Using expectancy-value theory in a longitudinal investigation of students' beliefs

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Matusovich, Holly ^a   Streveler, Ruth ^a   Loshbaugh, Heidi ^b   Miller, Ronald ^b   Olds, Barbara ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

ENGINEERING FIELDS; EXPECTANCY-VALUE THEORY; FIRST YEAR STUDENTS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85029085859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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