Scaling up, scaling down: Seven years of performance assessment development in the nation's second largest school district

Educational Assessment

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 195-214

  Niemi, David ^a   Baker, Eva L ^a   Sylvester, Roxanne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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