Study habits and academic achievement of engineering students

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 125-132

  Blumner, Harry N ^a   Richards, Herbert C ^a  

^a State Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST (SAT);

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 0031122932     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1997.tb00275.x     Document Type: Article

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