Respecting complexity in measures of teaching: Keeping students and schools in focus

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 55, Issue , 2016, Pages 308-317

  Cohen, Julie ^a   Grossman, Pam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom observational measures in English language arts; School context; Student characteristics; Teacher evaluation; Teacher quality in ELA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958249765     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2016.01.017     Document Type: Article

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