Investigation of Turkish trainee teachers' epistemological beliefs

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 709-720

  Oǧuz, Aytunga ^a,b,c  

^a DUMLUPINAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Education Faculty   (Turkey)

^c Merkez Kampus Tavşanli ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epistemological beliefs; Gender; Individual differences; Teacher education; Trainee teacher

Indexed keywords

EID: 53149145708     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2008.36.5.709     Document Type: Article

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