An investigation of the relationship between teachers’ expectations and teachers’ perceptions of student attributes

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 217-240

  Timmermans, Anneke C ^a   de Boer, Hester ^a   van der Werf, Margaretha P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Between teacher differences; Multilevel analysis; Student attributes; Teacher expectations; Teacher perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957632523     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: 15731928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-015-9326-6     Document Type: Article

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