Scores on a yes-no vocabulary test: Correction for guessing and response style

Language Testing

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 227-245

  Huibregtse, Ineke ^a   Admiraal, Wilfried ^a   Meara, Paul ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84990339342     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0265532202lt229oa     Document Type: Article

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