Performance Assessment and the Literacy Unit of the New Standards Project

Assessing Writing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-29

  Myers, Miles ^a   David Pearson, P ^b  

^a NCTE   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0040022642     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1075-2935(96)90003-3     Document Type: Article

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