Validating a number sense screening tool for use in kindergarten and first grade: Prediction of mathematics proficiency in third grade

School Psychology Review

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 181-195

  Jordan, Nancy C ^a   Glutting, Joseph ^a   Ramineni, Chaitanya ^b,d   Watkins, Marley W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Delaware ^*

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