Enhancing Teaching Assistants' (TAs') Inquiry Teaching by Means of Teaching Observations and Reflective Discourse

School Science and Mathematics

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 178-190

  Miller, Kristen ^a   Brickman, Peggy ^a   Oliver, J Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 84938864254     PISSN: 00366803     EISSN: 19498594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ssm.12065     Document Type: Article

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