Persistently positive: Forty years of public opinion on standardized testing

Defending Standardized Testing

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-22

  Phelps, Richard P ^a  

^a Third Education Group   (United States)

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EID: 65149091800     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410612595     Document Type: Chapter

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