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Abercrombie, Sara; Bang, Hyeyoung; Vaughan, Ashley – Educational Psychology, 2022
Academic risk taking is a strategy where students engage in more difficult, challenging work in order to reap greater personal or community benefits, despite uncertainty, such as potential failure. A sample (N = 355) of college students from a Midwest university were measured on three dimensions of academic risk-taking as well as two motivational…
Descriptors: Risk, Student Behavior, College Students, Academic Achievement

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