The centrality of context in learning from further class size research

Educational Psychology Review

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 455-467

  Englehart, Joshua Michael ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement measures; Class size; Research context

Indexed keywords

EID: 35248862978     PISSN: 1040726X     EISSN: 1573336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10648-006-9039-7     Document Type: Article

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