The Role of Assessment in Qualifying Students as Eligible for Special Education: What Is and What's Supposed to Be

Focus on Exceptional Children

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages

  MacMillan, Donald L ^a   Gresham, Frank M ^a   Bocian, Kathleen M ^a   Siperstein, Gary N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

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EID: 84940364356     PISSN: 0015511X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17161/foec.v30i2.6757     Document Type: Article

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