Selecting undergraduate students: What can the UK Learn from the American SAT?

Higher Education Quarterly

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-67

  West, Anne ^a   Gibbs, Rebecca ^a  

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EID: 71149105332     PISSN: 09515224     EISSN: 14682273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2273.2004.00260.x     Document Type: Article

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