A Multilevel Perspective on Gender in Classroom Motivation and Climate: Potential Benefits of Male Teachers for Boys?

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 78-95

  Marsh, Herbert W ^a   Martin, Andrew J ^b   Cheng, Jacqueline H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

classroom climate; multilevel modeling with cross classification; student and teacher gender; student motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749093621     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.100.1.78     Document Type: Article

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