Understanding causal influences on educational achievement through analysis of differences over time within countries

Lessons Learned: What International Assessments Tell Us About Math Achievement

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 37-63

  Gustafsson, Jan Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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