Student and school factors affecting finnish mathematics achievement: Results from timss 1999 data

Contexts of Learning Mathematics and Science: Lessons Learned from TIMSS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 128-140

  Kupari, Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

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EID: 84859140384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203012536     Document Type: Chapter

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