Exploring the first year academic achievement of school leavers and mature-age students through structural equation modelling

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 107-123

  McKenzie, Kirsten ^a   Gow, Kathryn ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mature age students; School leavers; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742306374     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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