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Name: Student motivation: Motives related to attributions
ID: m37738
Language: English (en)
Summary: The perceptions about the causes of success and failure can influence motivation in students, and this module covers three variations of attributions and how they are related to student learning in the classroom.
Subject: Social Sciences
Keywords: academic motivation, attributions, classroom, controllability, locus, pessimism, stability
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Kelvin Seifert (seifert@cc.umanitoba.ca)
Copyright Holders: Kelvin Seifert (seifert@cc.umanitoba.ca)
Maintainers: Jared Adler (jca2@rice.edu), Kelvin Seifert (seifert@cc.umanitoba.ca), Global Text Project (drexel@uga.edu), Daniel Williamson (dcwill@cnx.org)
Latest version: 1.1 (history)
First publication date: Mar 3, 2011 1:04 am -0600
Last revision to module: Apr 21, 2011 4:33 pm -0500

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Version: 1.1 Apr 21, 2011 4:33 pm -0500 by Jared Adler
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