The equivalence of forms A and B of the California critical thinking skills test

Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 211-222

  Jacobs, Stanley S ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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