Educators' implicit theories of intelligence and beliefs about the identification of gifted students;Teorías implícitas de los educadores sobre la inteligencia y creencias sobre la identificación de los estudiantes talentosos

Universitas Psychologica

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 295-310

  García Cepero, María Caridad ^a,b   Betsy McCoachbetsy, D ^c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^b Programa DeLTA UCN   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Creativity; Educators; Factor analysis; Gifted; Gifted identification; Implicit theories of intelligence; Intelligence; Teacher beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950872786     PISSN: 16579267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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