Stage-Environment Fit Revisited: A Goal Theory Approach to Examining School Transitions

Goals, Goal Structures, and Patterns of Adaptive Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 109-142

  Midgley, Carol ^a   Middleton, Michael J ^b   Gheen, Margaret H ^a   Kumar, Revathy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410602152-12     Document Type: Chapter

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