Using universal design, research and perspectives, to increase the validity, of scores on large-scale assessments

Testing Deaf Students in An Age of Accountability

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 63-75

  Thurlow, Martha L ^a   Johnstone, Christopher ^a   Thompson, Sandra J ^c   Case, Betsy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b WestEd   (United States)

^c NONE

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