Creating matched National Curriculum assessments in English and Welsh: test translation and parallel developmentFootnote¹

1 I am grateful to Aled Wiliam, Urien Wiliam and an anonymous reviewer for comments on an earlier draft of this article, although the responsibility for errors which remain is, of course, mine.

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