High-Stakes Testing: Barrier to Gifted Girls in Mathematics and Science?

School Science and Mathematics

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 313-319

  Rebhorn, Leslie S ^a   Miles, Dorothy D ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0007082901     PISSN: 00366803     EISSN: 19498594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-8594.1999.tb17490.x     Document Type: Article

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