Relations among preschool teachers' self-efficacy, classroom quality, and children's language and literacy gains

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1094-1103

  Guo, Ying ^a   Piasta, Shayne B ^a   Justice, Laura M ^a   Kaderavek, Joan N ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom quality; Literacy and language development; Teacher self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649340579     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2009.11.005     Document Type: Article

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