Assessing accomplished teaching: Advanced-level certification programs

Assessing Accomplished Teaching: Advanced-Level Certification Programs

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-323

  Hakel, Milton D ^a   Koenig, Judith Anderson ^b   Elliott, Stuart W ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.17226/12224     Document Type: Book

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