How external exit exams spur achievement

Educational Leadership

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 58-63

  Bishop, John H ^a   Mañe, Ferran ^b   Bishop, Michael ^c  

^a and History   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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