Teacher judgments of students' reading abilities across a continuum of rating methods and achievement measures

School Psychology Review

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-38

  Begeny, John C ^a,d   Krouse, Hailey E ^a   Brown, Kristina G ^b   Mann, Courtney M ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d Department of Psychology   (United States)

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