Class attendance and gender effects on undergraduate students' achievement in a social studies course in Botswana

Essays in Education

Volumn 18, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ajiboye, J O ^a   Tella, Adeyinka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

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