An overview of adapting educational and psychological assessment instruments: Past and present

Psychological Reports

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 307-314

  Merenda, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

APTITUDE TESTS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 33751534890     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.99.2.307-314     Document Type: Article

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