Validation of the teaching engineering self-efficacy scale for K-12 teachers: A structural equation modeling approach

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 463-485

  Yoon Yoon, So ^a   Evans, Miles G ^b   Strobel, Johannes ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

K 12 engineering education; Teacher self efficacy; TESS

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INSTRUMENTS; LOADING;

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING TEACHINGS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY RELIABILITY; K-12 ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE; SELF EFFICACY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TESS;

TEACHING;

EID: 84903820294     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jee.20049     Document Type: Article

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