Evaluation of a mentoring program for beginning teachers in terms of the learning environment and student outcomes in participants' school classrooms

Teacher Education: Policy, Practice and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-51

  Pickett, Linda H ^a   Fraser, Barry J ^b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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