Teacher biases in the identification of learning disabilities: An application of the logistic multilevel model

Learning Disability Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 199-209

  Sideridis, Georgios D ^a   Antoniou, Faye ^b   Padeliadu, Susana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

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EID: 57049168144     PISSN: 07319487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25474652     Document Type: Article

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