Implementing cooperative learning, teacher collaboration and teachers' sense of efficacy in heterogeneous junior high schools

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-72

  Shachar, Hanna ^a   Shmuelevitz, Haddas ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0030637335     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ceps.1997.0924     Document Type: Article

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