Do Reading Passages about War Provide Factorially Invariant Scores for Men and Women?

Applied Measurement in Education

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 171-189

  Pomplun, Mark ^a   Omar, Md Hafidz ^a  

^a Riverside Publishing   (United States)

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EID: 0346607019     PISSN: 08957347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15324818AME1402_4     Document Type: Article

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