Teachers' conceptions of excellent teaching and its relationships to self-reported teaching practices

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 936-947

  Chen, Junjun ^a   Brown, Gavin T L ^b   Hattie, John A C ^c   Millward, Pam ^b  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese middle school; Excellent teaching; Structural equation modeling; Teacher thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863863423     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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