New Measures of Mastery Motivation for Infancy through Elementary School : Overview / Nancy A. Busch-Rossnagel and George A. Morgan.

Mastery motivation is an inherent force that stimulates exploration of the environment and attempts at mastering moderately challenging tasks. It is important to develop good measures of this motive because there is evidence that indicators of task orientation are predictors of later school success,...

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Main Authors: Busch-Rossnagel, Nancy A.
Morgan, George A. (Author)
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998.
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Physical Description:18 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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