An analysis of differential response patterns on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-IIIB in struggling adult readers and third-grade children

Reading and Writing

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1239-1258

  Pae, Hye K ^a   Greenberg, Daphne ^b   Williams, Rihana S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential response patterns; Lexical characteristics; Receptive vocabulary; Semantic referents and categories

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027928240     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-011-9315-x     Document Type: Article

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