An empirical review of psychometric evidence for the dynamic indicators of basic early literacy skills

School Psychology Review

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 463-483

  Goffreda, Catherine T ^a   DiPerna, James Clyde ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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