Friends in the classroom: A comparison between two methods for the assessment of students' friendship networks

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 475-488

  Pijl, Sip Jan ^a,b   Koster, Marloes ^a   Hannink, Anne ^a   Stratingh, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Friendship; Friendship networks; Primary education; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055188380     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-011-9162-2     Document Type: Article

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