Methodological issues in analog acceptability research: Are teachers' acceptability ratings of assessment methods influenced by experimental design?

School Psychology Review

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-16

  Eckert, Tanya L ^a   Shapiro, Edward S ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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