Students' perceptions of science teachers' interpersonal behaviour in secondary schools: Development of a Turkish version of the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction

Learning Environments Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-129

  Telli, Sibel ^a,b   Den Brok, Perry ^c   Cakiroglu, Jale ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Milli Piyango Anatolian High School   (Turkey)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross cultural validity; Interpersonal behaviour; Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction; Student and teacher perceptions of teaching; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547843515     PISSN: 13871579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10984-007-9023-2     Document Type: Article

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