Achievement of immigrant students in mathematics and academic Hebrew in Israeli school: A large-scale evaluation study

Studies in Educational Evaluation

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Levin, Tamar ^a   Shohamy, Elana ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Achievement evaluation; Immigrant achievements; Immigration; Language testing; Mathematics Literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649116120     PISSN: 0191491X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stueduc.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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