The quality of local district assessments used in Nebraska's School-based Teacher-led Assessment And Reporting System (STARS)

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 14-21

  Brookhart, Susan M ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944446018     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2005.00007.x     Document Type: Article

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