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Differential item functioning in the figure classification test

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 1998
The elimination of unfair discrimination and cultural bias of any kind, is a contentious workplace issue in contemporary South Africa. To ensure fairness in testing, psychometric instruments are subjected to empirical investigations for the detection of ...
E. van Zyl, D. Visser
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Investigating the sources of differential item functioning: A sample critical thinking motivation scale

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023
Investigating the existence of items with differential item functioning (DIF) may provide more accurate comparisons of group differences in studies that aim to compare scores obtained in a test by groups with different characteristics.
Hüseyin Yıldız, Fatma Betül Kurnaz
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Detecting Differential Item Functioning Using Response Time. [PDF]

Educ Psychol Meas
This study investigated uniform differential item functioning (DIF) detection in response times. We proposed a regression analysis approach with both the working speed and the group membership as independent variables, and logarithm transformed response times as the dependent variable. Effect size measures such as Δ
Duan Q, Cheng Y.
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FURTHER EVALUATION OF A MODIFIED VERSION OF THE HOSPICE PHILOSOPHY SCALE: A DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING ANALYSIS [PDF]

Innov Aging, 2023
Todd Becker, Sarah Clem, Paul Sacco, John G. Cagle, Joan K. Davitt, Nancy Kusmaul, Cindy Cain   +6 more
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Exploring differential item functioning in the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) [PDF]

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2012
Background The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) is a widely used patient reported outcome in osteoarthritis. An important, but frequently overlooked, aspect of validating health outcome measures is to establish if ...
Pollard Beth, Johnston Marie, Dixon Diane   +2 more
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Item Response Theory Analysis and Differential Item Functioning of the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale. [PDF]

Assessment
Patel TA, Robison M, Cougle JR.
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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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Enhancing Precision in Predicting Magnitude of Differential Item Functioning: An M-DIF Pretrained Model Approach. [PDF]

Educ Psychol Meas
Huang S, Ishii H.
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Utility of the PROMIS Physical Function measure using differential item functioning among individuals with cognitive impairment [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Lovett R, Russell A, Vogeley A, Bonham M, Graham E, Mroczek D, Yoshino‐Benavente J, O'Conor R, Opsasnick L, Batio S, Wolf M.   +10 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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