Assessing the effects of teachers' reading knowledge on students' achievement using multilevel propensity score stratification

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 458-482

  Kelcey, Ben ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

multilevel propensity scores; teacher effects; teacher knowledge; teacher quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855130147     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: 19351062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0162373711415262     Document Type: Article

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