Exploring factors related to preschool teachers' self-efficacy

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 961-968

  Guo, Ying ^a   Justice, Laura M ^a   Sawyer, Brook ^a   Tompkins, Virginia ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom context; Preschool; Teacher self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866307811     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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