Internal structure of DISCOVER: A performance-based assessment

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 314-327

  Sarouphim, Ketty M ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

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