Building bridges for student success: Are higher education articulation policies effective?

Teachers College Record

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2444-2478

  Josipa, Roksa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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