Preservice teachers' implicit attitudes toward students with and without immigration background: A pilot study

Studies in Educational Evaluation

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 204-210

  Glock, Sabine ^a   Kneer, Julia ^b   Kovacs, Carrie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Immigration background; Implicit attitudes; Preservice teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888841416     PISSN: 0191491X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stueduc.2013.09.003     Document Type: Article

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