Cumulative class attendance and exam performance

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 937-942

  Lin, Tsui Fang ^a   Chen, Jennjou ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT;

EID: 33751078043     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850500425733     Document Type: Article

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