Investigating the construct validity of scores from a measure of student perceptions about mathematics classroom activities using multidimensional scaling

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 701-709

  Tittle, Carol Kehr ^a   Weinberg, Sharon L ^b   Hecht, Deborah ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030522586     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164496056004011     Document Type: Article

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