Consequences of Using Testing Accommodations: Student, Teacher, and Parent Perceptions of and Reactions to Testing Accommodations

Assessment for Effective Intervention

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-62

  Lang, Sylvia C ^a   Kumke, Patrick J ^a   Ray, Corey E ^a   Cowell, Erin L ^a   Elliott, Stephen N ^a   Kratochwill, Thomas R ^a   Bolt, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 84992805685     PISSN: 15345084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/073724770503100105     Document Type: Article

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