Scientific epistemic beliefs, conceptions of learning science and self-efficacy of learning science among high school students

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 757-769

  Tsai, Chin Chung ^a   Jessie Ho, Hsin Ning ^a   Liang, Jyh Chong ^a   Lin, Hung Ming ^b  

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

^b MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conceptions of learning; Epistemic beliefs; Science education; Science learning; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051816466     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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