When intentions and reality clash: Inherent implementation difficulties of an induction program for new teachers

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 278-284

  Fresko, Barbara ^a   Nasser Abu Alhija, Fadia ^b  

^a BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Large scale reform; Program evaluation; Teacher evaluation; Teacher induction

Indexed keywords

EID: 59149105112     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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