Intervention, evaluation, and policy studies: Scaling up the implementation of a pre-kindergarten mathematics curriculum: Teaching for understandingwith trajectories and technologies

Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 89-119

  Sarama, Julie ^a   Clements, Douglas H ^a   Starkey, Prentice ^b   Klein, Alice ^b   Wakeley, Ann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Mathematics; Preschool; Randomized; Scale up

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009576640     PISSN: 19345747     EISSN: 19345739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19345740801941332     Document Type: Article

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