Effects of practice and intellectual growth on performance on the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT)

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 192-204

  Cliffordson, Christina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Intellectual growth effects; Practice effects; Repeated test taking; Selection effects; SweSAT

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142713779     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759.20.3.192     Document Type: Article

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