First-year university performance as a function of type of secondary school attended and gender

New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-28

  Hughes, David ^a   Lauder, Hugh ^b   Strathdee, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030495467     PISSN: 00288276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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