The development and evaluation of an educational placement screener for youths in pretrial detention

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 321-328

  Hart, Lesley ^a   Naples, Adam ^a   Chapman, John ^c   Chart, Hilary ^b   D'Amaddio, Amy ^c   Foley Geib, Catherine ^c   Macomber, Donna ^a   Skiba, Thomas ^a   Tan, Mei ^a   Grigorenko, Elena L ^a,d,e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Connecticut Judicial Branch ^*  (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Educational placement screener; Item response theory; Juvenile detention; Mathematics; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867254627     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000113     Document Type: Review

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