The role of school and classroom climate in elementary school learning environments

School Climate: Measuring, Improving and Sustaining Healthy Learning Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 30-48

  Creemers, Bert P M ^a   Reezigt, Gerry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203983980-8     Document Type: Chapter

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