An instructional intervention's impact on the science and literacy achievement of culturally and linguistically diverse elementary students

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 857-887

  Lee, Okhee ^a   Deaktor, Rachael A ^b   Hart, Juliet E ^c   Cuevas, Peggy ^a   Enders, Craig ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Princeton Review   (United States)

^c Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PERFORMANCE; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 27844580291     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20071     Document Type: Article

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