Generic and Differentiated Models of Educational Effectiveness: Implications for the Improvement of Educational Practice

Springer International Handbooks of Education

Volumn 17, Issue , 2007, Pages 41-56

  Kyriakides, Leonidas ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Differential Item Functioning; School Effect; School Improvement; Teacher Behaviour; Teacher Effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749096393     PISSN: 21971951     EISSN: 2197196X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5747-2_3     Document Type: Chapter

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