Quantifying context in assessment: Capturing the effect of base rates on teacher referral and a problem-solving model of identification

School Psychology Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 161-183

  VanDerHeyden, Amanda M ^a   Witt, Joseph C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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