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Teaching efficacy: exploring relationships between mathematics and science self-efficacy beliefs, PCK and domain knowledge among preservice teachers from the United States

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Pages 1-20 | Received 12 Mar 2014, Accepted 24 Sep 2015, Published online: 28 Jul 2016

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