Measuring Social Status and Social Behavior with Peer and Teacher Nomination Methods

Social Development

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 815-832

  van den Berg, Yvonne H M ^a   Lansu, Tessa A M ^a   Cillessen, Antonius H N ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Peer assessment; Social status; Sociometric methods; Teacher assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943821090     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12120     Document Type: Article

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