Factors influencing early adolescents' mathematics achievement: High-quality teaching rather than relationships

Learning Environments Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-69

  Winheller, Sandra ^a   Hattie, John A ^b   Brown, Gavin T L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Elementary school; High school; Mathematics achievement; Quality of school life; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874462479     PISSN: 13871579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10984-012-9106-6     Document Type: Article

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