Unpacking pedagogical content knowledge: Conceptualizing and measuring teachers' topic-specific knowledge of students

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 372-400

  Hill, Heather C ^a   Ball, Deborah Loewenberg ^b   Schilling, Stephen G ^b  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Item response theory; Pedagogical knowledge; Professional development; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949089037     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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