Teacher characteristics and teaching styles as effectiveness enhancing factors of classroom practice

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-21

  Opdenakker, Marie Christine ^a,b   Van Damme, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Classroom practice; Multilevel analysis; Teaching style

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744498538     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2005.07.008     Document Type: Article

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