A cross-cultural validation of the epistemic belief inventory (EBI)

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 618-624

  Teo, Timothy ^a   Chai, Ching Sing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Elementary teachers; Epistemic belief; Factor analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869035555     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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