Class attendance and performance in principles of economics

Education Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 211-233

  Cohn, Elchanan ^a   Johnson, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attendance; GPA; Performance; SAT; University

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; ECONOMICS; MODELING; STUDENT;

EID: 33646761675     PISSN: 09645292     EISSN: 14695782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09645290600622954     Document Type: Article

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