The internal consistency reliability, concurrent validity, and stability of the Cooperative Preschool Inventory in English and Spanish editions were examined for monolingual-English and monolingual-Spanish Hispanic preschool pupils. The findings supported the reliability, validity, and stability of both editions as well as the comparability of both editions.
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