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I just posted about the importance of reliability/validiy in the educational community and I'm online, even though it shows otherwise... does anyone know how I
Hi. I'm writing an exam on the importance of validity and reliability is assessment, especially in the educational community at large. I have a fairly good
Oh, I see! Sorry, I didn't think internal diversification within Dravidian was the issue, rather Dravidian vs IE. [Of course, there are other S. & Central
Check Comrie's book on World Languages to be sure but I think the gist is that Tamil separated out from common Dravidian before the others split into Telegu,
I want to emphasise again that although Ruhlen is highly qualified his views on these and related matters are shared only by a TINY minority of historical