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Teachers' Thinking About Difficult-to-Teach Students

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Corinne Gaffney Catalano, Helenrose Fives, Eileen McKeating & Nicole Barnes. (2022) Preservice early childhood teachers’ sense of efficacy for teaching children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education 43:2, pages 167-193.
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Marjolijn Peltenburg & Marja van den Heuvel-Panhuizen. (2012) Teacher perceptions of the mathematical potential of students in special education in the Netherlands. European Journal of Special Needs Education 27:3, pages 391-407.
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Meixia Ding, Yeping Li, Xiaobao Li & Gerald Kulm. (2010) Chinese teachers' attributions and coping strategies for student classroom misbehaviour. Asia Pacific Journal of Education 30:3, pages 321-337.
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Moshe Tatar & Zvi Bekerman. (2009) School counsellors' and teachers' perceptions of their students' problems: Shared and divergent views. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research 9:3, pages 187-192.
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Lisa Woolfson, Elizabeth Grant & Lindsay Campbell. (2007) A Comparison of Special, General and Support Teachers’ Controllability and Stability Attributions for Children’s Difficulties in Learning. Educational Psychology 27:2, pages 295-306.
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Maria Poulou. (2007) Personal Teaching Efficacy and Its Sources: Student teachers’ perceptions. Educational Psychology 27:2, pages 191-218.
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OneydaM. Paneque & PatriciaM. Barbetta. (2006) A Study of Teacher Efficacy of Special Education Teachers of English Language Learners With Disabilities. Bilingual Research Journal 30:1, pages 171-193.
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Maria Poulou. (2005) Educational psychology within teacher education. Teachers and Teaching 11:6, pages 555-574.
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CarolynM. Tucker, Terrence Porter, WendyM. Reinke, KeithC. Herman, PhyllisD. Ivery, ChristopherE. Mack & ErinS. Jackson. (2005) Promoting Teacher Efficacy for Working With Culturally Diverse Students. Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth 50:1, pages 29-34.
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Chau-kiu Cheung, Tak-yan Lee, Wing-tai Chan, Suk-ching Liu & Kwan-kwok Leung. (2004) Developing civic consciousness through social engagement among Hong Kong youths. The Social Science Journal 41:4, pages 651-660.
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AliciaL. Moore. (2002) African-American early childhood teachers' decisions to refer African-American students. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 15:6, pages 631-652.
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Sophia Mavropoulou & Susana Padeliadu. (2002) Teachers' Causal Attributions for Behaviour Problems in Relation to Perceptions of Control. Educational Psychology 22:2, pages 191-202.
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Maria Poulou. (2001) The role of vignettes in the research of emotional and behavioural difficulties. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties 6:1, pages 50-62.
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Huey‐Ling Lin , Nedra Hazareesingh, Janet Taylor, Jeffrey Gorrell & HelenL. Carlson. (2001) Early childhood and elementary preservice teachers’ beliefs. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education 22:3, pages 135-150.
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Leslie C. Soodak. (2000) PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS AND STUDENTS WITH LEARNING PROBLEMS: PROMISING PRACTICE OR REFORM RHETORIC?. Reading & Writing Quarterly 16:3, pages 257-280.
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Sue Howard, John Dryden & Bruce Johnson. (1999) Childhood Resilience: Review and critique of literature. Oxford Review of Education 25:3, pages 307-323.
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Peter Westwood. (1998) Reducing educational failure. Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities 3:3, pages 4-12.
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