The effects of outcomes-driven authentic assessment on classroom quality

Early Childhood Research and Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Hallam, Rena ^a,c   Grisham Brown, Jennifer ^b   Gao, Xin ^b   Brookshire, Robyn A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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