Domain-general and domain-specific developmental assessments: Do they measure the same thing?

Cognitive Development

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-78

  Dawson, Theo L ^a   Xie, Yi Yu ^b   Wilson, Mark ^b  

^a HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Developmental assessment; Hierarchical complexity; Linear transformation; Multidimensional partial credit model; Random coefficients multinomial logit model; Stage theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037270141     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2014(02)00162-4     Document Type: Article

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