The System of Academic Task Values: The Development of Cross-Domain Comparisons of Values and College Major Choice.
This study synthesizes theories of achievement motivation to better understand the development of academic task values in high school students and their relation to college major selection. We utilize longitudinal structural equation modeling to understand how grades relate to task values, how task...
| Publicado en: | Developmental Psychology Vol. 59; no. 6; pp. 1032 - 1045 |
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American Psychological Association
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