Gender-related impact and differential item functioning in a test of numerical ability;Impacto y funcionamiento diferencial de los ítems respecto al género en una prueba de aptitud numérica

Psicothema

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 685-696

  Benito, Juana Gómez ^a   Ara, María José Navas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

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