A guide to understanding and developing performance-level descriptors

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 15-29

  Perie, Marianne ^a  

^a National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

No Child Left Behind; Performance level descriptors; Standard setting

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049171291     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: 17453992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2008.00135.x     Document Type: Article

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