EXAMINING THE NATURE OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING THROUGH MASTER TEACHERS’ LESSON EVALUATION IN CHINA

Effective Mathematics Teaching from Teachers’ Perspectives: National and Cross-National Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 163-181

  Huang, Rongjin ^a   Li, Yeping ^a  

^a Texas AandM Health Science Center   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1163/9789087908225_008     Document Type: Chapter

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