Methods to evaluate educational quality and improvement in China

Education Reform in China: Changing concepts, contexts and practices

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 75-91

  Thomas, Sally M ^a   Peng, Wen Jung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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