Experimenting With Teacher Professional Development: Motives and Methods

Educational Researcher

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 469-479

  Wayne, Andrew J ^a   Yoon, Kwang Suk ^a   Zhu, Pei ^b   Cronen, Stephanie ^a   Garet, Michael S ^a  

^a AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MDRC’s K–12 education policy area ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

experimental design; professional development; research methodology; school teacher effectiveness; staff development; teacher education development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996167721     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X08327154     Document Type: Article

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