The importance of relying on the manual: Scoring error variance in the WISC-IV vocabulary subtest

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 374-385

  Erdodi, Laszlo A ^a   Richard, David C S ^b   Hopwood, Christopher ^c  

^a EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROLLINS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Psychometrics; Scoring error; WISC IV

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350050230     PISSN: 07342829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734282909332913     Document Type: Article

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