Do First Impressions Matter? Predicting Early Career Teacher Effectiveness

AERA Open

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Atteberry, Allison ^a   Loeb, Susanna ^b   Wyckoff, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

policy makers; school districts; teaching effectiveness; value added

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051320160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23328584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2332858415607834     Document Type: Article

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