Classroom composition, classroom management, and the relationship between student attributes and grades

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 289-300

  Hochweber, Jan ^a   Hosenfeld, Ingmar ^b   Klieme, Eckhard ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Achievement; Classroom composition; Classroom management; Grading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892945452     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033829     Document Type: Article

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