Assessing quality characteristics of center-based early childhood environments in Germany and Portugal: A cross-national study

European Journal of Psychology of Education

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 283-298

  Tietze, Wolfgang ^a   Bairrão, Joaquim ^b   Leal Barreiros, Teresa ^b   Rossbach, Hans Guenther ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cross national comparisons; Early childhood; Preschool; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032394543     PISSN: 02562928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03173094     Document Type: Article

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