The classroom environment and children’s performance – is there a relationship?

Children and their Environments: Learning, Using and Designing Spaces

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 91-107

  Martin, Sandra Horne ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511521232.007     Document Type: Chapter

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