The self-assessed literacy index: Reliability and validity

Social Science Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1465-1476

  Olson, Kristen ^a   Smyth, Jolene D ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Pearson, Jennie E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data quality; Literacy index; Reading; Scale validation; Survey design

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960900884     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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