Impacts of two-year and four-year college attendance on learning orientations

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Pierson, Christopher T ^c   Wolniak, Gregory C ^a   Pascarella, Ernest T ^a   Flowers, Lamont A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0037360054     PISSN: 01625748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2003.0002     Document Type: Article

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