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applied developmental assessment  

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  • Assessment has become a fact of life for today's infants, children, and adolescents and their families. School testing grew after the 1983 report A Nation at Risk (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983) documented that American students lagged behind students in other developed countries in school performance. [Source: Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science; Assessment, Applied Developmental]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-FK9SR7KM-X

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