Assessing the risks and possibilities: Standardised literacy testing at Year 9

Curriculum Perspectives

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 65-70

  Kerin, Rosie ^a   Comber, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 79551544978     PISSN: 01597868     EISSN: 23671793     Source Type: Journal    
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