Assessing the comparability of school scores across test forms that are not parallel

Applied Measurement in Education

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 285-306

  Fitzpatrick, Anne R ^a   Lee, Guemin ^a   Gao, Furong ^a  

^a CTB MCGRAW HILL   (United States)

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EID: 0035614021     PISSN: 08957347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15324818AME1403_5     Document Type: Article

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