The efficacy of embedding special education instruction in teacher preparation programs in the United States

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2087-2094

  Brown, Kimberlee S ^a   Welsh, Lesley A ^a   Hill, Kristin Haegele ^a   Cipko, Joseph P ^a  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment adaptations; Inclusion; Integration; Preservice teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849136488     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

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