Assessing the Practicum in teacher education - Do we want candidates and mentors to agree?

Studies in Educational Evaluation

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 36-41

  Smith, Kari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Evaluators; Practicum; Professional learning; Student evaluation; Teacher evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649680295     PISSN: 0191491X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stueduc.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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