The Education Participation Scale-Modified: Evaluating a measure of continuing education

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-222

  Dia, David ^a,b   Smith, Charles A ^a   Cohen Callow, Amy ^a   Bliss, Donna Leigh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factory analysis; Continuing professional education; Education Participation Scale Modified; Motivation orientations; Social workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444418271     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731504273543     Document Type: Article

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