Measuring the strength of teachers' unions: An empirical application of the partial independence item response approach

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 629-670

  Strunk, Katharine O ^a   Reardon, Sean F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IRT; teachers' unions; union strength

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651386245     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998609359790     Document Type: Article

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