A Cross-grade Comparison to Examine the Context Effect on the Relationships Among Family Resources, School Climate, Learning Participation, Science Attitude, and Science Achievement Based on TIMSS 2003 in Taiwan

International Journal of Science Education

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2089-2106

  Chen, Shin Feng ^a   Lin, Chien Yu ^b   Wang, Jing Ru ^a   Lin, Sheau Wen ^a   Kao, Huey Lien ^a  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Context effect; Learning participation; TIMSS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866880815     PISSN: 09500693     EISSN: 14645289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2012.701352     Document Type: Article

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