An investigation of the psychometric evidence of CBM-R passage equivalence: Utility of readability statistics and equating for alternate forms

Journal of School Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-17

  Betts, Joseph ^a   Pickart, Mary ^a   Heistad, Dave ^a  

^a Minneapolis Public Schools   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Curriculum based measurement of reading; Form equivalence; Psychometric evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249098913     PISSN: 00224405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsp.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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