Instructional sensitivity of a state's standards-based assessment

Educational Assessment

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-22

  D'Agostino, Jerome V ^a,b   Welsh, Megan E ^a   Corson, Nina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 34249732051     PISSN: 10627197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15326977ea1201_1     Document Type: Article

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