The unified validity of the Four Skills Exam: Applying Messick's framework

Language Testing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 397-421

  Guerrero, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 84990405442     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026553220001700402     Document Type: Article

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