What do teachers think about thinking skills?

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 44-51

  Baumfield, Vivienne ^a   Oberski, Iddo ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Implementation; Innovation; Perceptions; Skills; Teachers; Thinking styles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986180530     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09684889810200386     Document Type: Article

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