Response to Mathias and Nettelbeck on the structure of competence: Need for theory-based methods to test theory-based questions

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 145-152

  Greenspan, Stephen ^a   McGrew, Kevin S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MODEL; THEORY;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL RETARDATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 0029936434     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0891-4222(95)00043-7     Document Type: Article

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