Are Autonomous and Controlled Motivations School-Subjects-Specific?

PLoS One · 2015 · PMC4527747 · PMID 26247788

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Correlations between specific students’ achievement and matching intrinsic motivation were positive and statistically significant for mathematics and reading (.17, and .25 respectively), but nearly significant for science (.15, p < .05).

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