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Resits in higher education: merely a bar to jump over, or do they give a pedagogical ‘leg up’?

Steven ProudDepartment of Economics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 681-697 | Published online: 14 Aug 2014

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