A latent variable investigation of the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening-Kindergarten assessment: Construct identification and multigroup comparisons between Spanish-speaking English-language learners (ELLs) and non-ELL students

Language Testing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 205-221

  Huang, Francis L ^a   Konold, Timothy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

English language learners; hierarchical CFA; literacy assessment; measurement invariance; PALS K; Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898861556     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: 14770946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265532213496773     Document Type: Article

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