The mediators of minority ethnic underperformance in final medical school examinations

British Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 135-159

  Woolf, Katherine ^a,b   Mcmanus, I Chris ^a,b   Potts, Henry W W ^c   Dacre, Jane ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; MINORITY GROUP; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863497574     PISSN: 00070998     EISSN: 20448279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8279.2011.02060.x     Document Type: Article

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