Competing explanations of undergraduate noncompletion

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 536-559

  Attewell, Paul ^a   Heil, Scott ^a   Reisel, Liza ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

equity; postsecondary education; retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955790032     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831210392018     Document Type: Article

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