Exploring teachers' perceived self efficacy and technological pedagogical content knowledge with respect to educational use of the World wide Web

Instructional Science

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-21

  Lee, Min Hsien ^a   Tsai, Chin Chung ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Questionnaire; Self efficacy; Teacher; Technological pedagogical content knowledge; Web teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 74849107680     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-008-9075-4     Document Type: Article

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