Best Practices in Teachers' Professional Development in the United States

Psychology, Society and Education

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 252-263

  Desimone, Laura M ^a   Garet, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b American Institutes for Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal studies of professional development; Features of effective professional development; High quality professional development; Teachers' professional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961879910     PISSN: 21712085     EISSN: 1989709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25115/psye.v7i3.515     Document Type: Article

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