Teaming up: Linking collaboration networks, collective efficacy, and student achievement

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 251-262

  Moolenaar, Nienke M ^a   Sleegers, Peter J C ^a   Daly, Alan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b University of California San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective efficacy; Social network; Student achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 83555174347     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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