Relationship of family support and ethnic minority students' achievement in science and mathematics

Science Education

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-125

  Smith, Frances M ^a   Hausafus, Cheryl O ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032326211     PISSN: 00368326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-237X(199801)82:1<111::AID-SCE6>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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