Reading Coach Quality: Findings from Florida Middle Schools

Literacy Research and Instruction

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-26

  Marsh, Julie A ^a   McCombs, Jennifer Sloan ^b   Martorell, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent literacy; adult learning; literacy coaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859387184     PISSN: 19388071     EISSN: 19388063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19388071.2010.518662     Document Type: Article

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