Development of the New Zealand Adult Reading Test (NZART): Preliminary findings

New Zealand Journal of Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 129-141

  Starkey, Nicola J ^a   Halliday, Teejay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

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