Can Achievement Goal Theory Enhance Our Understanding of the Motivation and Performance of African American Young Adolescents?

Goals, Goal Structures, and Patterns of Adaptive Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 175-204

  Freeman, Kimberley Edelin ^a   Gutman, Leslie Morrison ^b   Midgley, Carol ^b  

^a Frederick D Patterson Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410602152-14     Document Type: Chapter

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