The instructional challenge in improving teaching quality: Lessons from a classroom observation protocol

Teachers College Record

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Gitomer, Drew ^a   Bell, Courtney ^a   Qi, Yi ^a   McCaffrey, Daniel ^a   Hamre, Bridget K ^a   Pianta, Robert C ^a  

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