What is evidence-based education?

British Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 108-121

  Davies, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cochrane collaboration; Evidence; Meta analysis; Methodology; Professional development; Research; Sociology; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001089648     PISSN: 00071005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8527.00106     Document Type: Article

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