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ERIC Number: EJ388072
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Values, Valences, and Course Enrollment: Testing the Role of Personal Values within an Expectancy-Valence Framework.
Feather, N. T.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v80 n3 p381-91 Sep 1988
The enrollment decisions of 444 (183 male, 260 female, and 1 unspecified) university students at Flinders University (South Australia) were investigated. Results shed light on gender differences in achievement patterns in mathematics and English and in relation to assumptions about relations between expectations and valences. (TJH)
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), English, Enrollment Influences, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Mathematics Achievement, Sex Differences, Undergraduate Students, Values
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Australia; Expectancy Theory; Valence Theory