Class placement at age 8 and subsequent academic achievement

New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 207-222

  Horwood, John ^a   Fergusson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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