Educational Assessment Knowledge and Skills for Teachers

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-12

  Brookhart, Susan M ^a  

^a Brookhart Enterprises LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom assessment; Educational assessment; Teacher competency

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952753158     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: 17453992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2010.00195.x     Document Type: Article

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