Teachers' Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge: The Role of Structural Differences in Teacher Education

Journal of Teacher Education

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 90-106

  Kleickmann, Thilo ^a   Richter, Dirk ^b   Kunter, Mareike ^c   Elsner, Jürgen ^d   Besser, Michael ^e   Krauss, Stefan ^f   Baumert, Jürgen ^d  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION   (Germany)

^b Institute for Educational Progress   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

content knowledge; measurement invariance; pedagogical content knowledge; regression analysis; teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871398892     PISSN: 00224871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022487112460398     Document Type: Article

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