Characteristics of professional development that effect change in secondary science teachers' classroom practices

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 668-690

  Jeanpierre, Bobby ^a   Oberhauser, Karen ^b   Freeman, Carol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSROOM; NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF); PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; TEACHERS;

DATA REDUCTION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 23844481868     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20069     Document Type: Article

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