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Chapter 5 - Transforming the “Real” First-Year Experience

The Case for and Approaches to Improving Gateway Courses

from Part II - Practices that Foster Student Success

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2017

Robert S. Feldman
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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The First Year of College
Research, Theory, and Practice on Improving the Student Experience and Increasing Retention
, pp. 126 - 154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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