Teacher education effectiveness: Quality and equity of future primary teachers' mathematics and mathematics pedagogical content knowledge

Journal of Teacher Education

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 154-171

  Blömeke, Sigrid ^a   Suhl, Ute ^a   Kaiser, Gabriele ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

international comparison; large scale assessment; mathematics teachers; teacher background; teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953711469     PISSN: 00224871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022487110386798     Document Type: Article

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