Educators' opinions on classroom observation as a practice of staff development and appraisal

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 161-173

  Lam, Shui Fong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Classroom observation; Staff appraisal; Staff development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035587725     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-051X(00)00049-4     Document Type: Article

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