Motivations to teach: Psychometric perspectives across the first semester of teacher tducation

Teachers College Record

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1132-1154

  Sinclair, Catherine ^a   Dowson, Martin ^a   McInerney, Dennis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 33744774648     PISSN: 01614681     EISSN: 14679620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9620.2006.00688.x     Document Type: Review

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