College students' ratings of student effort, student ability and teacher input as correlates of student performance on multiple-choice exams

Educational Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 229-239

  Williams, Robert L ^a   Clark, Lloyd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal attributions; College students; Multiple choice exams; Performance levels

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644260720     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0013188042000277304     Document Type: Article

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