Language background and item difficulty: The development of a computer-adaptive test of Japanese

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Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 199-206

  Brown, Annie ^a   Iwashita, Noriko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 0030167454     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0346-251X(96)00004-8     Document Type: Article

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