The Role of Attendance in Lecture Classes:You Can Lead a Horse to Water…

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-42

  Golding, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

attendance; course evaluations; lecture classes

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355132414     PISSN: 00986283     EISSN: 15322802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0098628310390915     Document Type: Review

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