Using Pupil Performance Data: Three Steps to Heaven?

Improving Schools

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 54-65

  Elliot, Karen ^a   Sammons, Pam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84993811606     PISSN: 13654802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136548020100400108     Document Type: Article

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