Family background and individual measures as predictors of turkish primary school children's academic achievement

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 535-544

  Hortaçsu, Nuran ^a   Ertem, Levent ^a   Kurtoğlu, Hülya ^a   Uzer, Berna ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84953185904     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: 19401019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223980.1990.10543246     Document Type: Article

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