What do we know and where do we go? Formative assessment in developing student teachers professional learning of teaching science

Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 188-201

  Nilsson, Pernilla ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Content Representations (CoRes); formative assessment; pedagogical content knowledge (PCK); primary science; student teacher; teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878612874     PISSN: 13540602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13540602.2013.741838     Document Type: Article

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