Learning environment, attitudes and conceptual development associated with innovative strategies in middle-school mathematics

Learning Environments Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 101-114

  Ogbuehi, Philip I ^a   Fraser, Barry J ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Achievement; Attitudes; Evaluation; Learning environment; Mathematics education; Middle schooling; Systems of linear equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547851618     PISSN: 13871579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10984-007-9026-z     Document Type: Article

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