Assessing reading at Key Stage 2: SATs as measures of children's inferential abilities

British Educational Research Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 431-446

  Tennent, Wayne ^a   Stainthorp, Rhona ^b   Stuart, Morag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 47049120152     PISSN: 01411926     EISSN: 14693518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411920701532251     Document Type: Article

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