Educational standardization and gender differences in mathematics achievement: A comparative study

Social Science Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 432-445

  Ayalon, Hanna ^a   Livneh, Idit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Between teacher instructional variation; Economic development; Gender stratification; Hierarchical analysis; National examinations; TIMSS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872652149     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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