Striving for equitable classroom assessments for linguistic minorities: Strategies for and effects of revising life science items

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 864-881

  Siegel, Marcelle A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; LINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS; CLASSROOM LEARNING; LINGUISTIC MINORITIES;

CURRICULA;

EID: 34547769275     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20176     Document Type: Article

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