Development of the teaching engineering self-efficacy scale (TESS) for K-12 teachers

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

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

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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