Reviews/essays: Attribution error and the quest for teacher quality

Educational Researcher

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 591-598

  Kennedy, Mary M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

teacher characteristics; teacher context; teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651425215     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X10390804     Document Type: Review

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