Studying and understanding the instructional contexts of classrooms: Using our past to forge our future

Educational Psychologist

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 69-85

  Turner, Julianne C ^a   Meyer, Debra K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0034386146     PISSN: 00461520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15326985EP3502_2     Document Type: Article

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