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Dimensionality and construct validity of School Development Expectation Scale for secondary students

Mo Ching Magdalena Mok1, Marcellin Flynn

  • 1Centre for Research and International Collaboration, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, N.T., Hong Kong. mmcmok@ied.edu.hk

Journal of Applied Measurement
|May 9, 2002
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