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Disciplinary climate, opportunity to learn, and mathematics achievement: an analysis using doubly latent multilevel structural equation modeling

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Pages 479-496 | Received 06 Sep 2021, Accepted 14 Feb 2022, Published online: 27 Feb 2022

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