Using Existing Tests and Scales in the Field

Field Methods

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 373-393

  Schrauf, Robert W ^a   Navarro, Ellen ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural assessment; test adaptation; test bias; tests and scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996222243     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X05279924     Document Type: Article

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