Success in college mathematics: Comparisons between remedial and nonremedial first-year college students

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 261-284

  Hagedorn, Linda Serra ^b   Siadat, M Vali ^c   Fogel, Shereen F ^c   Nora, Amaury ^c   Pascarella, Ernest T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0033147625     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018794916011     Document Type: Article

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