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Original Articles

Student Satisfaction: Towards an empirical deconstruction of the concept

Jannecke Wiers-Jenssen
,
Bj⊘rn Stensaker
&
Jens B. Gr⊘gaard
Pages 183-195 | Published online: 18 Aug 2010

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