Elementary school teachers' motivation toward web-based professional development, and the relationship with Internet self-efficacy and belief about web-based learning

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 406-415

  Kao, Chia Pin ^a   Wu, Ying Tien ^b   Tsai, Chin Chung ^c  

^a SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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

Author keywords

Learning beliefs; Motivation; Self efficacy; Web based professional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651346717     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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