Performance assessments and students with learning problems: Promising practice or reform rhetoric?

Reading and Writing Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 257-280

  Soodak, Leslie C ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85008834305     PISSN: 10573569     EISSN: 15210693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/105735600406742     Document Type: Article

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