Measuring teacher engagement: Development of the engaged teachers scale (ets)

Frontline Learning Research

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 33-52

  Klassen, Robert M ^a,b   Yerdelen, Sündüs ^c,d   Durksen, Tracy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d KAFKAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Engagement; Motivation; Scale validation; Teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903488069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22953159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14786/flr.v1i2.44     Document Type: Article

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