Predicting first year university students' academic success;Predicción del éxito académico de estudiantes durante el primer año de universidad

Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1053-1072

  Olani, Aboma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive factor; Multiple regression; Non cognitive variable; Predicting academic success; University GPA

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952109153     PISSN: 16995880     EISSN: 16962095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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