Teacher stress, teaching-efficacy, and job satisfaction in response to test-based educational accountability policies

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue , 2016, Pages 308-317

  von der Embse, Nathaniel P ^a   Sandilos, Lia E ^b   Pendergast, Laura ^a   Mankin, Ariel ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High stakes test; Job satisfaction; Teacher self efficacy; Teacher stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988662259     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.08.001     Document Type: Article

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