Academic Resilience in Retrospect: Following Up a Decade Later

Journal of Hispanic Higher Education

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 228-248

  Morales, Erik E ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

academic resilience; achievement gap; Dominican American students; longitudinal research; protective factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990393910     PISSN: 15381927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1538192708317119     Document Type: Article

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