Using Focus Groups to Examine the Consequential Aspect of validity

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 28-38

  Chudowsky, Naomi ^a   Behuniak, Peter ^b  

^a NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Bureau of Ewaluatwn and Student Assessment   (United States)

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EID: 0002873696     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: 17453992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.1998.tb00633.x     Document Type: Article

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