The development and construct validation of an instrument designed to investigate selected cognitive background characteristics of test-takers

Validation in Language Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 111-140

  Purpura, James E ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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