Measuring teaching quality in several European countries

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 295-311

  van de Grift, Wim J C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

multigroup confirmatory factor analysis; teacher; teacher education; teacher effectiveness research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904766188     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2013.794845     Document Type: Article

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