Affordances and constraints in the context of teacher collaboration for the purpose of data use

Journal of Educational Administration

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 341-362

  Datnow, Amanda ^a   Park, Vicki ^a   Kennedy Lewis, Brianna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data use; Decision making; Leadership; Teacher collaboration; Teachers; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878229221     PISSN: 09578234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09578231311311500     Document Type: Article

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