How the internet will help large-scale assessment reinvent itself

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 9, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Bennett, Randy Elliot ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

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EID: 0012686550     PISSN: 10682341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v9n5.2001     Document Type: Review

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