Influence of kindergarten principals' contingent rewards on teachers' creative teaching performance: Testing a

Yanzhen Xu1, Ya Liu2, Maoyong Huang1

  • 1School of Educational Science, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, China.

Work (Reading, Mass.)
|December 25, 2023
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