The validity of the Penn interactive peer play scale with urban, low-income kindergarten children

School Psychology Review

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-91

  Hampton, Virginia R ^a   Fantuzzo, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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