Measurement Quality of the Chinese Early Childhood Program Rating Scale: An Investigation Using Multivariate Generalizability Theory

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 236-248

  Chen, Dezhi ^a   Hu, Bi Ying ^b   Fan, Xitao ^b   Li, Kejian ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

early childhood education and care; multivariate generalizability theory (MG theory); program quality; reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899658717     PISSN: 07342829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734282913504813     Document Type: Article

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