Effort, ability and the teacher: Young children's explanations for success and failure

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-165

  Gipps, Caroline ^a   Tunstall, Pat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032252605     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0305498980240201     Document Type: Article

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