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Educational Psychology
An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology
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Variables contributing to academic success in an intermediate statistics course: the importance of learned resourcefulness

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Pages 815-830 | Received 01 Aug 2008, Accepted 02 Sep 2009, Published online: 30 Nov 2009

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