Teaching skills of student teachers: Calibration of an evaluation instrument and its value in predicting student academic engagement

Studies in Educational Evaluation

Volumn 43, Issue , 2014, Pages 150-159

  van de Grift, Wim ^a   Helms Lorenz, Michelle ^a   Maulana, Ridwan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evaluation instrument; Rasch model; Secondary education; Student teachers; Teaching skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919678315     PISSN: 0191491X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stueduc.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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