Mind the gap: Unexpected pitfalls in doing classroom research

Qualitative Report

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1435-1447

  Baker, Amanda A ^a,b,c   Lee, Joseph J ^d  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom observation; Classroom research; Qualitative research; Stimulated recall

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052686715     PISSN: 10520147     EISSN: 21603715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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