Predictors for the academic success of first-year physiotherapy students at a South African university.
Background: Numerous factors may influence academic performance and success in undergraduate physiotherapy programmes. Understanding these factors could assist with student selection and design of support structures. Objectives: The objective of our study was to explore the amount of variance explai...
| Publicado en: | South African Journal of Physiotherapy Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 1 - 9 |
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2020
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