Linking University Students’ Willingness to Learn to Their Recollections of Motivation at Secondary School

This study investigated the role of recollected school-based motivation on university students’ willingness to use new learning opportunities. Following Eccles’ expectancy-value theory, willingness to learn was conceptualized as task value, which has been found to predict task choice in previous emp...

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Main Authors: Julia Gorges, Malte Schwinger, Christian Kandler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2013-11-01
Series:Europe's Journal of Psychology
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Online Access:http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/638