Building teachers' data-use capacity: Insights from strong and developing coaches

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 22, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Huguet, Alice ^a   Marsh, Julie A ^a   Farrell, Caitlin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data coach; Data use; Data driven decision making; Instructional coach; Politics; Principal coach relationship; School context; Teacher coach relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903130256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v22n52.2014     Document Type: Article

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