Building teachers' expertise in understanding, assessing and developing children's mathematical thinking: The power of task-based, one-to-one assessment interviews

ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 901-913

  Clarke, Doug ^a   Clarke, Barbara ^a   Roche, Anne ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment interview; Student thinking; Teacher expertise; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867479340     PISSN: 18639690     EISSN: 18639704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11858-011-0345-2     Document Type: Article

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