Dimensional comparisons: How academic track students’ achievements are related to their expectancy and value beliefs across multiple domains

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-14

  Gaspard, Hanna ^a   Wigfield, Allan ^b   Jiang, Yi ^a,c   Nagengast, Benjamin ^a   Trautwein, Ulrich ^a   Marsh, Herb W ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dimensional comparisons; Expectancy value theory; Internal external frame of reference model; Self concept; Task value

Indexed keywords

EID: 85036562159     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2017.10.003     Document Type: Article

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