Chinese secondary school students’ conceptions of assessment and achievement emotions: endorsed purposes lead to positive and negative feelings

Asia Pacific Journal of Education

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 91-109

  Chen, Junjun ^a,b   Brown, Gavin T L ^c  

^a JILIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

achievement emotion; Assessment; China; quantitative; structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041224913     PISSN: 02188791     EISSN: 17426855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02188791.2018.1423951     Document Type: Article

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