Testing a dynamic model of student and school effectiveness with a multivariate multilevel latent growth curve approach

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 447-462

  Van Der Werf, Greetje ^a   Opdenakker, Marie Christine ^a   Kuyper, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Achievement motivation; Educational attainment; Educational effectiveness; Stability and change

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049085699     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243450802535216     Document Type: Article

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