Mixing it up about methods

Educational Researcher

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 541-545

  Croninger, Robert G ^a   Valli, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Education research; Mixed methods; Reading instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953510212     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X09348787     Document Type: Article

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