Student engagement in U.S. urban high school mathematics and science classrooms: Findings on social organization, race, and ethnicity

Urban Review

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-43

  Uekawa, Kazuaki ^a   Borman, Kathryn ^b   Lee, Reginald ^b  

^a AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom observation; Classroom organization; Experience sampling method; Flow; Minority education; Multilevel model; Rasch model; Student engagement; Urban education

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247637212     PISSN: 00420972     EISSN: 15731960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11256-006-0039-1     Document Type: Article

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