Informed theory and measurement equivalence in child development research

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-30

  Knight, George P ^a   Zerr, Argero A ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Factorial invariance; Measurement equivalence; Measurement invariance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951663012     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2009.00112.x     Document Type: Article

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