Evidence‐based practice and evaluation: From insight to impact

Educational Psychology in Practice

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-70

  Dunsmuir, Sandra ^a,b   Brown, Emma ^c,d   Iyadurai, Suzi ^b   Monsen, Jeremy ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Reading Educational Psychology Service   (United Kingdom)

^c Kent Educational Psychology Service   (United Kingdom)

^d Aberdeen City Educational Psychology Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS); Target Monitoring and Evaluation (TME) system

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958093653     PISSN: 02667363     EISSN: 14695839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02667360802697605     Document Type: Article

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