The use of performance feedback in school improvement in Louisiana

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1389-1403

  Schildkamp, Kim ^a   Visscher, Adrie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accountability; Performance feedback; School improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955511064     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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