The underestimated significance of practitioner knowledge in the scholarship on student success

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 441-469

  Bensimon, Estela Mara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 34547274350     PISSN: 01625748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2007.0032     Document Type: Review

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