Lessons from cross-national research on context and achievement: Hunting and fishing in the timss landscape

Contexts of Learning Mathematics and Science: Lessons Learned from TIMSS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3-15

  Howie, Sarah J ^a   Plomp, Tjeerd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84864664001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203012536     Document Type: Chapter

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