Using generic and content-specific teaching practices in teacher evaluation: An exploratory study of teachers' perceptions

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 22-33

  Charalambous, Charalambos Y ^a   Komitis, Andreas ^a   Papacharalambous, Maria ^a   Stefanou, Afroditi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Content specific teaching practices; Generic teaching practices; Teacher evaluation; Teacher perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897383316     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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