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Original Article

Class Attendance and Exam Performance: A Randomized Experiment

Jennjou Chen National Chengchi University, Taiwan
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Tsui-Fang Lin National Taipei University, Taiwan
Pages 213-227 | Published online: 07 Aug 2010

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