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Variations in State SAT Performance: Meaningful or Misleading?

Brian Powell and Lala Carr Steelman
Harvard Educational Review December 1984, 54 (4) 389-413; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.54.4.9150kg7h3n41773q
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