Evaluation in the wild: A distributed cognition perspective on teacher assessment

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 578-619

  Halverson, Richard R ^a   Clifford, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Distributed cognition; Empirical paper; Instructional leadership; Policy design and implementation; Teacher evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748257428     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: 15523519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X05285986     Document Type: Article

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