Teacher-Child Interactions and Children's Achievement Trajectories Across Kindergarten and First Grade

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 912-925

  Curby, Timothy W ^a   Rimm Kaufman, Sara E ^b   Ponitz, Claire Cameron ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

achievement gap; cross classified; first grade; kindergarten; teacher child interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449478722     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016647     Document Type: Article

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