Comparing tests used to identify ethnically diverse gifted children: a critical response to lewis, decamp-fritson, Ramage, Mcfarland, & Archwamety

Multicultural Education

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-53

  Warne, Russell T ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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