Increasing Teacher Use of Career-Relevant Instruction: A Randomized Control Trial of CareerStart

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 295-312

  Rose, Roderick A ^a   Woolley, Michael E ^b   Orthner, Dennis K ^a   Akos, Patrick T ^a   Jones Sanpei, Hinckley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

career relevant instruction; intervention evaluation; middle schools; randomized control trial; relevance; student engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864795217     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: 19351062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0162373711431733     Document Type: Article

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