Student perceptions of classroom learning environments: Development of the ClassMaps Survey

School Psychology Review

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 203-218

  Doll, Beth ^a   Spies, Robert A ^a   LeClair, Courtney M ^a   Kurien, Sarah A ^a   Foley, Brett P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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