An investigation of the effects of variations in mentor-based induction on the performance of students in California

Teachers College Record

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2271-2289

  Fletcher, Stephen ^a   Strong, Michael ^a   Villar, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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