Answering the unexpected questions: Exploring the relationship between students' creative self-efficacy and teacher ratings of creativity

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 342-349

  Beghetto, Ronald A ^a   Kaufman, James C ^b   Baxter, Juliet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creative self efficacy; Creativity; Elementary students; Math; Science; Self beliefs; Teacher ratings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875531342     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022834     Document Type: Article

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