Formal and Informal Mentoring: Complementary, Compensatory, or Consistent?

Journal of Teacher Education

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 88-110

  Desimone, Laura M ^a   Hochberg, Eric D ^a   Porter, Andrew C ^a   Polikoff, Morgan S ^b   Schwartz, Robert ^a   Johnson, L Joy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

educational policy; mentoring; teacher induction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893028360     PISSN: 00224871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022487113511643     Document Type: Article

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