The preparation of students from National Science Foundation-funded and commercially developed high school mathematics curricula for their first University Mathematics Course

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 203-231

  Harwell, Michael ^a   Post, Thomas R ^a   Cutler, Arnie ^a   Maeda, Yukiko ^b   Anderson, Edwin ^a,d   Norman, Ke Wu ^c   Medhanie, Amanuel ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d 175 Peik Hall   (United States)

^e 250 Educational Sciences Building   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement; Mathematics education; Postsecondary education

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849126931     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831208323368     Document Type: Article

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