Seeing Eye to Eye: Predicting Teacher-Student Agreement on Classroom Social Networks

Social Development

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 376-393

  Neal, Jennifer Watling ^a   Cappella, Elise ^b   Wagner, Caroline ^b   Atkins, Marc S ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Classrooms; Social networks; Teacher practices; Teacher student agreement

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954533630     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2010.00582.x     Document Type: Article

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