"Simply no worse and simply no better" may simply be wrong: A critique of Veenman's conclusion about multigrade classes

Review of Educational Research

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 307-322

  Mason, DeWayne A ^a   Burns, Robert B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

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EID: 0030502365     PISSN: 00346543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/00346543066003307     Document Type: Article

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