State and local efforts to investigate the validity and reliability of scores from teacher evaluation systems

Teachers College Record

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Herlihy, Corinne ^a   Karger, Ezra ^a   Pollard, Cynthia ^a   Hill, Heather C ^a   Kraft, Matthew A ^a   Williams, Megan ^a   Howard, Sarah ^a  

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