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Choices and changes: Eccles’ Expectancy-Value model and upper-secondary school students’ longitudinal reflections about their choice of a STEM education

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Pages 701-724 | Received 11 May 2015, Accepted 17 Feb 2016, Published online: 21 Mar 2016

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