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Assessing the Role of Intelligence, Motivation, and Coping Skills in Explaining Latin-Americans’ Intellectual Competence in School

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Human Assessment: Cognition and Motivation

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An international study set out to develop an improved conceptual system for explaining effective behaviour, especially achievement behaviour; to build reliable measures of the components of that behaviour; to develop and apply the measures internationally; and to validate the measures and the concepts against objective criteria of achievement (Peck et al, 1981).

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Peck, R.F., Angelini, A., Diez-Guerrero, R. (1986). Assessing the Role of Intelligence, Motivation, and Coping Skills in Explaining Latin-Americans’ Intellectual Competence in School. In: Newstead, S.E., Irvine, S.H., Dann, P.L. (eds) Human Assessment: Cognition and Motivation. NATO ASI Series, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4406-0_40

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