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Curriculum & Teaching Studies

Profiling teacher pedagogical behaviours in plummeting postgraduate students’ anxiety in statistics

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Article: 2222656 | Received 12 Feb 2023, Accepted 03 Jun 2023, Published online: 16 Jun 2023

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