Construct bias in the differential ability scales? Confirmatory and hierarchical factor structure across three ethnic groups

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 249-268

  Keith, Timothy Z ^a   Quirk, Kimberly J ^b   Schartzer, Cindy ^b   Elliott, Colin D ^b  

^a ALFRED UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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