Rasch analysis of the School Function Assessment provides additional evidence for the internal validity of the Activity Performance Scales

American Journal of Occupational Therapy

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 369-373

  Hwang, Jeng Liang ^a   Davies, Patricia L ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Aptitude tests; Educational measurement; Psychomotor performance; Reproducibility of results; Task performance and analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649519164     PISSN: 02729490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5014/ajot.63.3.369     Document Type: Article

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