Test-Taking Speed: Predictors and Implications

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 351-360

  Lovett, Benjamin J ^a   Lewandowski, Lawrence J ^b   Potts, Heather E ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

college students; correlational; exceptionalities disabilities; participants; reading; testing accommodations

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020457474     PISSN: 07342829     EISSN: 15575144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734282916639462     Document Type: Article

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