Where to look for student sorting and class-size effects: Identification and quest for causes based on international evidence

Contexts of Learning Mathematics and Science: Lessons Learned from TIMSS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 353-368

  Wößmann, Ludger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 84884436825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203012536     Document Type: Chapter

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