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Policies and Practices in Enforcing the Credit Hour

✍ Scribed by Jessica M. Shedd

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2003
Weight: 84 KB
Volume: 2003
Category: Article
ISSN: 0271-0560
DOI: 10.1002/he.107

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Although all institutions use the student credit hour, it is rarely defined and not consistently enforced.

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