Exploring the relationship between prior career experience and instructional quality among mathematics and science teachers in alternative teacher certification programs

Educational Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 602-627

  Scribner, Jay Paredes ^a   Akiba, Motoko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative certification; Mixed method; Teacher preparation; Teacher quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953845897     PISSN: 08959048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0895904809335104     Document Type: Article

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