Improving reading achievements of struggling learners

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-93

  Houtveen, Thoni ^a   van de Grift, Wim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

experiment; reading achievements; struggling learners; teacher effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856823334     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2011.600534     Document Type: Article

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