The Components of the Simple View of Reading: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Reading Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 217-240

  Protopapas, Athanassios ^a   Simos, Panagiotis G ^b   Sideridis, Georgios D ^b   Mouzaki, Angeliki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

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EID: 84860210715     PISSN: 02702711     EISSN: 15210685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02702711.2010.507626     Document Type: Article

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