Task familiarity: Effects on the test performance of Puerto Rican and African American children

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 323-332

  Peña, Elizabeth D ^a   Quinn, Rosemary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Culturally linguistically diverse preschool children; Standardized testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031256294     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461.2804.323     Document Type: Article

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