Psychometric properties of the teachers' sense of efficacy scale within the greek educational context

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-162

  Tsigilis, Nikolaos ^a   Koustelios, Athanasios ^a   Grammatikopoulos, Vasilios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; External validity; Factorial validity; Temporal stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949607360     PISSN: 07342829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734282909342532     Document Type: Article

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