Making learning visible in kindergarten classrooms: Pedagogical documentation as a formative assessment technique

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1439-1449

  Buldu, Mehmet ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Diversity; Formative assessment; Kindergarten; Pedagogical documentation; United Arab Emirates

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955472437     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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