The Effect of Examiners' Personal Familiarity and Professional Experience on Handicapped Children's Test Performance.

Fuchs, Douglas; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ314555

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Publication Date: 1985

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The Effect of Examiners' Personal Familiarity and Professional Experience on Handicapped Children's Test Performance.

Fuchs, Douglas; And Others

Journal of Educational Research, v78 n3 p141-46 Jan-Feb 1985

A study investigated whether examiners' personal familiarity and professional experience with examinees affects handicapped children's test performance. Professionally experienced and inexperienced examiners were used in test conditions that varied by degree of personal familiarity of examiners and children. Results are discussed. (Author/DF)

Descriptors: Disabilities, Examiners, Experimenter Characteristics, Interpersonal Relationship, Interrater Reliability, Preschool Education, Student Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Testing

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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