Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising 4-year college juniors

Teachers College Record

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-89

  Melguizo, Tatiana ^a   Dowd, Alicia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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