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Understanding Attitudes in Education

New Directions for Assessment

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For decades researchers have been trying to identify and classify characteristics that contribute to students’ academic success. The plethora of meaningful predictors is covered in the current volume by scores of distinguished contributors, and the reader will discover that all of the suggested lists and models are in no way complete or definitive.

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Lipnevich, A.A., Gjicali, K., Krumm, S. (2016). Understanding Attitudes in Education. In: Khine, M.S., Areepattamannil, S. (eds) Non-cognitive Skills and Factors in Educational Attainment. Contemporary Approaches to Research in learning Innovations. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-591-3_6

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