School Psychologists' Diagnostic Decision-Making Processes: Objective-Subjective Discrepancies

Journal of School Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 137-149

  Aspel, Andrew D ^a   Willis, W Grant ^b   Faust, David ^b  

^a Walsh Middle School   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Decision making; Diagnosis; Limited awareness; School psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037827588     PISSN: 00224405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4405(98)00002-8     Document Type: Article

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