Comprehensive study of factors impacting perceived quality in school organizations: Findings from research on quality assessment in Iowa school districts

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 5, Issue , 1997, Pages

  Poston Jr , William K ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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