Adolescent struggling readers in urban schools: Results of a Latent Class Analysis

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 438-452

  Brasseur Hock, Irma F ^a   Hock, Michael F ^a   Kieffer, Michael J ^b   Biancarosa, Gina ^c   Deshler, Donald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent readers; Adolescent reading profiles; Latent Class Analysis; Reading skill profiles; Subgroups of adolescent readers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960024167     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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