Opening Remarks to the Special Issue on Validation Theory and Research for a Population-Level Measure of Children's Development, Wellbeing, and School Readiness

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 179-181

  Guhn, Martin ^a   Zumbo, Bruno D ^a   Janus, Magdalena ^b   Hertzman, Clyde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 79961029654     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-011-9840-7     Document Type: Article

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