Sex equity in the classroom: Do female students lose the battle for teacher attention?

Classroom Communication and Instructional Processes: Advances Through Meta-Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 185-209

  Jones, Susanne M ^a   Dindia, Kathryn ^b   Tye, Stacy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203933145     Document Type: Chapter

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