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Examination of Gender-Related Differential Item Functioning Through Poly-BW Indices [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The existing differential item functioning (DIF) detection approaches relying on item difficulty or item discrimination are limited for understanding the associates of DIF items, and consequently, DIF items were conventionally either deleted or ignored ...
Tsai-Wei Huang, Pei-Chen Wu, Magdalena Mo Ching Mok, Magdalena Mo Ching Mok   +3 more
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Evaluation of psychometric properties of the Dental Anxiety Inventory (DAI‐36) questionnaire using iterative hybrid ordinal logistic: Differential item functioning (DIF) [PDF]

Brain and Behavior, 2023
Objectives Dental Anxiety Inventory (DAI‐36) questionnaire is an instrument for assessing dental anxiety. The different perceptions of the questionnaire items in the individual at the same level of underlying dental anxiety may lead to different reported
Narges Roustaei, Elahe Allahyari
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Examining the Fairness of the University Entrance Exam: A Latent Class Analysis Approach to Differential Item Functioning [PDF]

Issues in Language Teaching, 2021
Measurement has been ubiquitous in all areas of education for at least a century. Various methods have been suggested to examine the fairness of education tests especially in high-stakes contexts.
Sayyed Mohammad Alavi, Hossein Karami, Mohammad Hossein Kouhpaeenejad   +2 more
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Gender differential item functioning on the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills instrument using logistic regression

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education), 2022
The item differential function (DIF) describes a situation in which testees of similar ability but from different demographic groups have varying chances of achieving the same result.
Sumin Sumin, Fitri Sukmawati, Nurdin Nurdin   +2 more
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Detecting Differential Item Functioning in 2PL Multistage Assessments

Psych, 2023
The detection of differential item functioning is crucial for the psychometric evaluation of multistage tests. This paper discusses five approaches presented in the literature: logistic regression, SIBTEST, analytical score-based tests, bootstrap score ...
Rudolf Debelak, Sebastian Appelbaum, Dries Debeer, Martin J. Tomasik   +3 more
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Differential item functioning and ad hoc interpretations [PDF]

Teaching English Language, 2010
A plethora of research studies has focused on Differential Item Functioning. Despite the diversity of DIF detection techniques offered, little research has been done on the interpretation of DIF results.
Seyyed Mohammad Alavi, Hossein Karami
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An Evaluation of DIF Tests in Multistage Tests for Continuous Covariates

Psych, 2021
Multistage tests are a widely used and efficient type of test presentation that aims to provide accurate ability estimates while keeping the test relatively short.
Rudolf Debelak, Dries Debeer
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The effect of missing data and imputation on the detection of bias in cognitive testing using differential item functioning methods

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2022
Background Item response theory (IRT) methods for addressing differential item functioning (DIF) can detect group differences in responses to individual items (e.g., bias).
E. Nichols, J. A. Deal, B. K. Swenor, A. G. Abraham, N. M. Armstrong, K. Bandeen-Roche, M. C. Carlson, M. Griswold, F. R. Lin, T. H. Mosley, P. Y. Ramulu, N. S. Reed, A. R. Sharrett, A. L. Gross   +13 more
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Detecting Differential Item Functioning: Item Response Theory Methods Versus the Mantel-Haenszel Procedure

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021
This Monte Carlo study assessed Type I error in differential item functioning analyses using Lord’s chi-square (LC), Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT), and Mantel-Haenszel (MH) procedure.
Emily Diaz, Gordon Brooks, George Johanson   +2 more
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An Investigation of Item Bias of English Test: The Case of 2016 Year Undergraduate Placement Exam in Turkey

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2019
Thepurpose of this study is to determine whether English test items ofUndergraduate Placement Exam (UPE) in 2016 containdifferential item functioning (DIF) and differential bundle functioning (DBF)in terms of gender and school type and examine the ...
Rabia Akcan, Kübra Atalay Kabasakal
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