SAT Validity for Linguistic Minorities at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-16

  Zwick, Rebecca ^a   Schlemer, Lizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Admissions; Language minorities; SAT

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144509869     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: 17453992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2004.tb00148.x     Document Type: Article

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