High school advanced placement and student performance in college: STEM majors, Non-STEM majors, and gender differences

Teachers College Record

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Ackerman, Phillip L ^a   Kanfer, Ruth ^a   Calderwood, Charles ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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