Examining teacher effectiveness within differentially effective primary schools in the People's Republic of China

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 387-407

  Teddlie, Charles ^a   Liu, Shujie ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextually sensitive studies of school effectiveness; Education in China; Educational effectivess research; School effectiveness research; Teacher effectiveness research

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049135697     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243450802535182     Document Type: Review

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