Two new statistics to detect answer copying

Journal of Educational Measurement

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-69

  Sotaridona, Leonardo S ^a   Meijer, Rob R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0037354099     PISSN: 00220655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3984.2003.tb01096.x     Document Type: Article

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